surrendered

This won't make it into my message tomorrow, but I found it tonight and it encourages me to preach about the Fear of the Lord, b/c to fear Him (not be afraid of him) is to surrender and submit to his Lordship. I hope I live that everyday.

“As long as a man is self-assured, and strong, and independent and conscious of no need, he is really living in a terribly narrow world, limited by his own human strength and natural resources. But as soon as you have got that same man with his self-assurance gone, and conscious of nothing so much as that he is a poor, broken reed, then God can come in with the limitless reserves of the supernatural”

(Walking With God, James S. Stewart, 207) (HT: J. Stackhouse)