Surrendering All

There are reasons God wishes for a surrender in our lives--obviously it must be for our benefit, for nothing is with a reason when it is the will of God. The will of God surpasses all human understanding, and it takes trust to let go of all desire and sacrifice to accomplish whatever is acquired. Our earthly travails, troubles and suffering are a part of God's plan to combine a lesson on a small or larger scale, depending on the sacrifice.
Surrendering requires humility, considering there are other who are better in more things than we. It takes discipline to remain on that uncomfortable stand, and experience in the act of suffering and submission. To accept this is God's work in action, your life taking a form in His hands that holds the clay, who knows the perfect structure you need.
What exactly, must we surrender? "Everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake..." (Matt. 19:29) our bodies, our family, our hopes, dreams, our most secret plans,our clothes, our speech, our writing--ALL to God, his work, his plan, his destination; our ways mean nothing to him--we must model our lives as he directs us.
How so we find such perfect directions-where do we find it but in God's Holy Word--we must soak ourselves in it, reading, reading, reading, constantly, so we may know how to take our situations that come along day by day and take God's way to dealing with it--also, when we cannot find an answer, seek it our through prayer and quiet meditation on Him.
When we surrender everything we have, we must also surrender our friendships--our company and surroundings influence us in a deceitful way--we grow numb to what we see and begin to accept it as "the norm." We cannot not always change our surroundings, but let us not let them change us.
Following Christ's footsteps--what an awesome responsibility and opportunity to try and Imitate! If we fall or stray even by a strand off that goal of his plan, then we must try to gain root of why we are on that strand, we loose focus and begin to despair of forget, we have no example to follow it seems, we are alone, and it seems the other path looks correct, until too late--we fall, we fail, and we grieve when brought face to face again with the path of that strand--we don't know how much to do--the answer is EVERYTHING--do everything--exceed your expectations and go the mile that others won't take because it's too risky--and do it with all your heart, soul, and mind.