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Jesus, all for Jesus.  All I am, and have, and ever hope to be.  All of my ambitions, hopes, and plans, I surrender these into your hands.  For it’s only in your will that I am free.  Jesus, all for Jesus.   All I am, and have, and ever hope to be.

Ever since the worship team practiced this song on Saturday, it’s been stuck in my head.  We practiced after the funeral, and so I wasn’t exactly feeling like praising God, or thinking about what had happened.  We came to this song, and the words hit me with a new meaning.  I can’t hold on to anything.  I’ve got to give it ALL to Jesus.  Everything that I hope to do or hope to be, all that I have planned and scheduled – I have to place it ALL in His hands.  It’s hard to surrender control, especially for me, who likes to have all her ducks in a row and to know what’s coming next.  But I am called, not only to give it ALL to Jesus, but to follow him ALL my days, to love him with ALL of my heart, ALL of my soul, ALL of my strength, and ALL of my mind.  In return, Jesus paid it ALL on the cross and offered me life.  I owe it to him to give him ALL of my life and to serve him ALL of my days and to praise him ALL the days he gives me.

I’m not saying it’s easy to give your life to God, or to follow him daily.  I’m not saying that I’m perfect at it, because I’m not.  But that’s my goal: to trust him with everything  – my life, my problems, my joys, and my sorrows, my future and my present, my past and my mistakes, and so much more.  I can’t live this life on my own, and I can’t live it pretending that I can either.  I’ve got to lean on God, and I’ve got to surrender my life to him.  I want to give him ALL of my life, every day that he places me here for.  Lord, to you I surrender, to you I give everything.  All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into your hands.  All I am and have, and ever hope to be.

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