A Christian leader from Romania was asked, "Why is it that the church in the Western world has lost its power with God and man?"
He said, "The church has substituted commitment for surrender."
The committed life centres on doing; the surrendered life centres on our being.
The committed life emphasizes what we can do for Christ; the surrendered life realizes that we can do nothing apart from Christ.
The committed life exalts competence; the surrendered life exalts character.
*Excerpt from Edmund Chan's Growing Deep In God*
Nothing wrong in commitment per se. Commitment is good. Commitment is needed. It's a practical outworking of surrender. But I believe surrender needs to happen first before the commitment can be of any real value. Otherwise my commitment will be misplaced.
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