Luke 1: 38 (NKJV)
"Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord, Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her”.
In this verse of scripture, we see the highest form of SURRENDER to God that a woman of God, a daughter of the King of Kings, can exhibit. We see Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ typifying for us what it means to be a YIELDED vessel in God’s eyes.
This kind of SURRENDER involves the SUBMISSION of our very wills to God. It requires that you and I “relinquish all rights to direct the course of our own lives”. When we do this, we are saying just like Mary said that God knows what is best for us, and that we give Him control. He is now in control of our lives, not you or me.
It is not very easy for us as ladies, wives, mothers to give up control. Why? We like to be in control. We are used to taking charge and seeing to it that things get done, which in itself is not a bad thing. The issue is that if truth be told, we normally many times want things done our way and no other way.
Today, the Lord is saying to us as we dig deep into this scripture, that He is looking for yielded vessels, surrendered vessels, submitted vessels and even beyond these, totally yield lives. We have been bought with a price. We belong to Master Jesus.
My dear sister, take a moment today to surrender once again to Him and let Him not only be Lord, but Master in your life. Let Him direct the course of your life according to His plans and purposes for your life, even when you don’t fully understand, like Mary the Mother of Jesus.
He will bring you and me to a place of honour and glory we could never bring ourselves in a million years.
Why not take a moment today and pray, “Lord I surrender to you, I yield to you, I submit to you, let it “be it done to me according to your” will” in Jesus name Amen.