Christianity: Full Surrender to God's Glory

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The life of a fully surrendered Christian, as evidenced by Paul the Apostle, George Müller and Hudson Taylor, impacts his surroundings and leaves a lasting legacy. Hudson Taylor said “God’s man, in God’s place, doing God’s work, in God’s way, will never lack God’s supply.” The Christian who is living life in full surrender shows that in everything they do, they do it for God. Surrender is allowing God to work in you and through you without your own desires getting in the way. A friend of D L Moody once said to him, “The world has yet to see what God can do with one man wholly dedicated to Him.” The lives of these three men, Paul, Müller and Taylor show the power of a fully surrendered life. They are men who changed their times, greatly influenced their communities and accomplished many great achievements. They are men who left a legacy to follow because of the principles they lived by, the character they showed, the works they accomplished and their faithfulness to God. They are men who showed the world what God can do and will do through a man wholly dedicated to Him.

The Apostle Paul exemplifies a life of full surrender. He is one of the greatest men of the Christian faith and the reason is because he lived his life in full surrender. Paul, however, did not always live a life following Christ. Paul was a devout Jew. He had grown up with the Jewish culture. His father was a Pharisee, he was circumcised on the eighth day and he knew the Torah inside out. Hebrew society Paul was your go to man. If you wanted to know something he knew it. If you wanted to get something done, he could do it. On top of all this he was a persecutor of Christians. In those days Christians were considered heretics and blasphemous for believing in Je...

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...efore strengthened again and he would pray all the more fervently for the future or current need. A great example of this is with the milk truck story that is most commonly known.

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Bailey, Faith Coxe. George Muller. Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.

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Muller, George. The Autobiography of George Muller. New Kensington: Whitaker House, 1984.

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