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Monday, September 26, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
Gettin' Outta the Boat
Gettin' Outta the Boat
Well, I'm doing it...I am getting outta the boat.
Yup I am walking onto the water, heading to Jesus, and Stepping out in faith.
Sounds pretty strong and spiritually convincing right now eh?
Couldn't be further from the truth...
Knees are knockin', teeth are chattering, and I'm hyperventalating...
Ok...not quite that bad, but you get the point.
It is a big step to go from the known to the unknown.
Especially when it defies logic or in Peter's case good ol' fashioned physics.
But that is where God is.
He isn't in the boat, He is on the water.
"IF it is you Lord call me get out of the boat"
Geez what a silly question. Man talk about setting yourself up. Very predictable. You almost are on the sidelines shouting "Don't do it man!" You can see EXACTLY where this is going.
Like in horror movies, why is it that when the young starlet hears a noise she doesn't just stay in the safety of the house? Nope. Away she goes to check it out. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb. You just KNOW that is going to happen. You see it. Apparently she doesn't.
Peter didn't. So Jesus did.
Come on out. Man. Now Peter went and done it..had to put his faith where his mouth was.
And that is Exactly where Jesus wanted him.
Then Peter saw the wind and the waves. And started to dog paddle. The mouth that had put its faith were its mouth was was now gargling sea water.
Jesus Save Me!
I think it was more like gurgle, gurgle gasp, JESUS, gurgle, gasp, gasp, SAVE ME!
IMMEDIATELY Jesus reached out his hand. Good thing, because I suspect Peter wasn't treading water very well.
Just a bunny trail here...Seems unusual but a lot full time commercial fishermen don't know how to swim. Weird huh.
I used to room with a couple Newfie guys years ago, and they confided in me that most of them do not go swimming and most don't know HOW to swim. It is just not done. Blew my mind.
Just like a lot of people from the Midwestern U.S. don't appear go to the lake...I asked a buddy of mine what lakes they go to in the states. He commented "Why would you "go" to the lake? What exactly would you "do" there?" Wild.
Imagine being that close to water your whole life and not thinking you might have to get into it someday.
Anyways...BIG bunny trail there.
Point is...walking on the water, me, Jesus, the whole enchilada.
Part of me is like AWESOME! Walking on the water. The cutting edge of faith, another daring adventure, Hooray!
Another part of me is going "Don't do this to me Jesus, I love my nicely warmed up seat in the boat. Hey I had a good place picked out there. I don't care that it is pitching in the wind like a tilt-a-whirl, It is safe here. Or is it?
Jesus is saying "who told you I wanted you to play it safe?"
So this weekend I am hopping onto the water, getting outta the boat, and secretly hoping it froze up since I looked at it last.
And heading to Jesus...
Wish me luck...better yet, pray for me. I just MIGHT need that.
Blessings,
Moose
Well, I'm doing it...I am getting outta the boat.
Yup I am walking onto the water, heading to Jesus, and Stepping out in faith.
Sounds pretty strong and spiritually convincing right now eh?
Couldn't be further from the truth...
Knees are knockin', teeth are chattering, and I'm hyperventalating...
Ok...not quite that bad, but you get the point.
It is a big step to go from the known to the unknown.
Especially when it defies logic or in Peter's case good ol' fashioned physics.
But that is where God is.
He isn't in the boat, He is on the water.
"IF it is you Lord call me get out of the boat"
Geez what a silly question. Man talk about setting yourself up. Very predictable. You almost are on the sidelines shouting "Don't do it man!" You can see EXACTLY where this is going.
Like in horror movies, why is it that when the young starlet hears a noise she doesn't just stay in the safety of the house? Nope. Away she goes to check it out. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb. You just KNOW that is going to happen. You see it. Apparently she doesn't.
Peter didn't. So Jesus did.
Come on out. Man. Now Peter went and done it..had to put his faith where his mouth was.
And that is Exactly where Jesus wanted him.
Then Peter saw the wind and the waves. And started to dog paddle. The mouth that had put its faith were its mouth was was now gargling sea water.
Jesus Save Me!
I think it was more like gurgle, gurgle gasp, JESUS, gurgle, gasp, gasp, SAVE ME!
IMMEDIATELY Jesus reached out his hand. Good thing, because I suspect Peter wasn't treading water very well.
Just a bunny trail here...Seems unusual but a lot full time commercial fishermen don't know how to swim. Weird huh.
I used to room with a couple Newfie guys years ago, and they confided in me that most of them do not go swimming and most don't know HOW to swim. It is just not done. Blew my mind.
Just like a lot of people from the Midwestern U.S. don't appear go to the lake...I asked a buddy of mine what lakes they go to in the states. He commented "Why would you "go" to the lake? What exactly would you "do" there?" Wild.
Imagine being that close to water your whole life and not thinking you might have to get into it someday.
Anyways...BIG bunny trail there.
Point is...walking on the water, me, Jesus, the whole enchilada.
Part of me is like AWESOME! Walking on the water. The cutting edge of faith, another daring adventure, Hooray!
Another part of me is going "Don't do this to me Jesus, I love my nicely warmed up seat in the boat. Hey I had a good place picked out there. I don't care that it is pitching in the wind like a tilt-a-whirl, It is safe here. Or is it?
Jesus is saying "who told you I wanted you to play it safe?"
So this weekend I am hopping onto the water, getting outta the boat, and secretly hoping it froze up since I looked at it last.
And heading to Jesus...
Wish me luck...better yet, pray for me. I just MIGHT need that.
Blessings,
Moose
Monday, September 19, 2005
In Other News...
In Other News...
The Riders Won yesterday against the Eskimos! Man I thought for sure their goose (geese / gooses) were cooked...right down to the wire it was, like a David and Goliath faceoff...right down to the last punt.
See what happened here:
Roughriders v.s. Eskimos Game
After church in the morning, got to spend some time with a couple really cool Christian guys I know (was good hangin with ya Dale and Don)and cheer on the green and white...was a cool way to spend an afternoon, then spent the rest of the afternoon with a couple guys from my church (good hangin with ya Kevin and Tim)watching WWE on pay per view...all in all it was a good day. Nothing too spiritually challenging or such, ('cept the prayers that went up for the Riders to win :) Just hangin with Christian brothers at sporting events...very cool.
The Riders Won yesterday against the Eskimos! Man I thought for sure their goose (geese / gooses) were cooked...right down to the wire it was, like a David and Goliath faceoff...right down to the last punt.
See what happened here:
Roughriders v.s. Eskimos Game
After church in the morning, got to spend some time with a couple really cool Christian guys I know (was good hangin with ya Dale and Don)and cheer on the green and white...was a cool way to spend an afternoon, then spent the rest of the afternoon with a couple guys from my church (good hangin with ya Kevin and Tim)watching WWE on pay per view...all in all it was a good day. Nothing too spiritually challenging or such, ('cept the prayers that went up for the Riders to win :) Just hangin with Christian brothers at sporting events...very cool.
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Links, Links, and More Links
Links, Links, and More Links...
Well here I was starting to add links to my website, cool sites that revealed my interests in music, art, hobbies and beliefs...well...it kinda took on its own life...when I was going through all my bookmarks I realized how much junk I had in there and started cleaning that out, and one thing led to another and well...there is the result, strewn down the side of my blog like so so much exploded spagetti :) Oh well...
And to those leaving comments, I really must apologize, I had to add a word authentication thingy there as I was getting spammed, I myself hate the "try and figure out what the heck that word says and type it in things" but it was a necessary evil...guess thats the day and age we live in...protect yourself or get spammed back to the dark ages...
Well...thats it...no super spiritual blog tonite...just a bunch of links, good spiritually uplifting ones, some serious and some downright silly...but that is what I put together...have fun surfin'...
Blessings,
Moose
Well here I was starting to add links to my website, cool sites that revealed my interests in music, art, hobbies and beliefs...well...it kinda took on its own life...when I was going through all my bookmarks I realized how much junk I had in there and started cleaning that out, and one thing led to another and well...there is the result, strewn down the side of my blog like so so much exploded spagetti :) Oh well...
And to those leaving comments, I really must apologize, I had to add a word authentication thingy there as I was getting spammed, I myself hate the "try and figure out what the heck that word says and type it in things" but it was a necessary evil...guess thats the day and age we live in...protect yourself or get spammed back to the dark ages...
Well...thats it...no super spiritual blog tonite...just a bunch of links, good spiritually uplifting ones, some serious and some downright silly...but that is what I put together...have fun surfin'...
Blessings,
Moose
Thursday, September 15, 2005
What Katrina Can Teach Us - Max Lucado
What Katrina Can Teach Us
Max Lucado-Pastor Oak Hills Church San Antonio, Texas
Excerpted from a sermon preached on 9/11/2005 by Max Lucado.
Who would have thought we would ever hear this phrase spoken on a radio news report in America: "Today, about 25,000 refugees were moved from the Superdome in New Orleans to the Astrodome in Houston."
For days, we've watched the tragedy continue to unfold in Mississippi and Louisiana and, if you are like me, you've wrestled with feelings of shock and disbelief...feelings that, over the last five years, have become all too familiar. We were barely into the new millennium when we saw towers falling in New York City and planes crashing into the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania farmland. We saw bombs over Baghdad and witnessed the ancient land of Abraham become a war zone for his ancestors. You'd think we had seen enough, but then came the tsunamia roaring wave that sucked life and innocence out to sea.
And now the fruits of Katrina. A city sitting in twenty feet of water. Citizens hacking their way onto roofs and helicopters hovering over neighborhoods. Optimistic rescuers, opportunistic looters, grateful people, resentful people--we have seen it all.
And many have seen it up close. Katrina came to San Antonio in the form of 12,500 evacuees. Many of you are meeting them, feeding them, writing checks, and manning shifts. And you, as much as any, have reason to wonder... What is going on here? 9/11, Iraq, tsunami, Katrina. And I didn't mention nor intend to minimize Hurricanes Dennis and Ivan and Emily.
Jesus criticized the leaders of his day for focusing on the weather and ignoring the signals: "You find it easy enough to forecast the weather -- why can't you read the signs of the times?" Matthew 16:2-3 (MSG).
What are we to learn from all of this? Is God sending us a message? I think so. And, I think we'd be wise to pay attention. There are some ! spiritual law lessons that I think God would want us to learn through this tragedy. The first lesson we see is...
I. The Nature of Possessions: Temporary
As you've listened to evacuees and survivors, have you noticed their words? No one laments a lost plasma television or submerged SUV. No one runs through the streets yelling, "My cordless drill is missing" or "My golf clubs have washed away." If they mourn, it is for people lost. If they rejoice, it is for people found.
Could Jesus be reminding us that people matter more than possessions? In a land where we have more malls than high schools, more debt than credit, more clothes to wear than we can wear, could Christ be saying: "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions" (Luke 12:15)?
We see an entire riverboat casino washed up three blocks and placed on top of a house in a neighborhood. You see demolished $40,000 cars that will never be driven again, hidden in debris. And in the background of our minds we hear the quiet echoes of Jesus saying, "What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" (Matthew 16:26).
Raging hurricanes and broken levees have a way of prying our fingers off the stuff we love. What was once most precious now means little; what we once ignored is now of eternal significance.
A friend and I attended a worship service at Antioch Baptist Church last Sunday night. Several African American Church leaders had organized an assembly to pray for the evacuees that have ended up in San Antonio. Many of them sat on the front rows...dressed in all the clothing they owned: t-shirts, jeans. Their faces were weary from the week. But when the music started and the worship began, they came to their feet and sang with tears in their eyes.
They were rich. Are you that rich? Were all your possession washed away, could you sit! all worship? Would you still worship? If not, you are holding to hinges too tightly: "Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage--to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they'll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life" (1 Timothy 6:17-19 MSG).
Through Katrina, Christ tells us: stuff doesn't matter; people do. Understand the nature of possessions. Be equally clear on:
II. The Nature of People: Sinners and Saints
We see the most incredible servants and stories of selflessness and sacrifice. We see people of the projects rescuing their neighbors, we see civil servants risking their lives for people they've never seen. My wife Denalyn and I toured a shelter supervised by one of our neighbors here in San Antonio. We met a family of some twenty cousins and siblings.
One six-year-old girl told Denalyn about the helicopter man who plucked her off a third story porch and lifted her to safety.
That child will never know who that man is. He'll never seek any applause. He saved her life... all in a day's work. We saw humanity at its best. And we saw humanity at its worst.
Looting. Fighting. We heard stories of rapes and robberies. Someone said, "The heavens declare the glory of God but the streets declare the sinfulness of man." The video footage in New Orleans has confirmed the truthfulness of that quote. Can you imagine not being able to sleep in the Superdome for fear that someone might try to rape your daughter if she went to the restroom in the middle of the night?
We are people of both dignity and depravity. The hurricane blew back more than roofs; it blew the mask off the nature of mankind. The main problem in the world is not Mother Nature, but human nature. Strip away the police barricades, blow down the fences, and the real self is revealed. We are barbaric to the core.
We were born with a me-first mentality. You don't have to teach your kids to argue. They don't have to be trained to demand their way. You don't have to show them how to stomp their feet and pout, it is their nature... indeed it is all of our nature to do so. "All of us have strayed like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own" (Isaiah 53:6).
God's chosen word for our fallen condition has three letters- s-I-n. Sin celebrates the letter in the middle. "I". Left to our own devices, we lead a godless, out of control life of doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it" (Ephesians 2:3 MSG).
You don't have to go to New Orleans to see the chaos. Because of sin, the husband ignores his wife, grown men seduce the young. The young proposition the old. When you do what you want and I do what I want, humanity and civility implodes.
And when the Katrinas of life blown in, our true nature is revealed and our deepest need is unveiled: a need deeper than food, more permanent than firm levees. We need, not a new system, but a new nature. We need to be changed from the inside out. Which takes us to the third message of Katrina:
III. The Nature of God's Grace: Inside Out
Much discussion revolves around the future of New Orleans. Will the city be restored? Repaired? How long will it take? Who will pay for it? One thing is for certain: someone has to clean her up.
No one is suggesting otherwise. Everyone knows, someone has to go in a clean up the mess. That is what God offers to do with us. He comes into sin-flooded lives and washes away the old. Paul reflected on his conversion and he wrote: "He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5). Our sins stand no chance against the fire hoses of God's grace.
But he does more than cleanse us; he rebuilds us. In the form of his Holy Spirit, God moves in and starts a complete renovation project. "God can do anything, far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us." (Ephesians 3:20 MSG).
And what we can only dream of doing with New Orleans, God has done with soul after soul, and he will do so with you, if you let him.
The most disturbing stories from the last week are of those who refused to be rescued. Those who spent their final hours trapped in attics and rooms regretting the choice they'd made. They could have been saved. They could have gotten out... but they chose to stay. Many paid a permanent price.
You don't have to pay that price. What rescuers did for people on the Gulf Coast, God will do for you. He has entered your world. He has dropped a rope into your sin-swamped life. He will rescue, you simply need to do what that little girl did, let him lift you out.
I mentioned my visit to Antioch Baptist Church last Sunday night. A local minister, Pastor L. A. Williams gave a message on this one verse: "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord..." (Gen. 6:8).
The minister helped us see all the things Noah could not find because of the flood. He could not find his neighborhood. He could not find his house. He could not find the comforts of home or the people down the street--there was much he could not find. But what he could find made all the difference. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah found grace in the eyes of God. If you have everything and no grace, you have nothing. If you have nothing but grace, you have everything.
Have you found grace? If not, I urge you to do what that little girl told us she did. When the rescuer appeared on her porch, she grabbed him, closed her eyes, and held on. That's all you need to do. And if you never have, and would like to, I urge you to reach for the hand of your rescuer, Jesus Christ.
Your Redeemer lives, too. This hurricane was his tool to get your attention. Trust in Him while you still can.
Max Lucado, © 2005
Max Lucado-Pastor Oak Hills Church San Antonio, Texas
Excerpted from a sermon preached on 9/11/2005 by Max Lucado.
Who would have thought we would ever hear this phrase spoken on a radio news report in America: "Today, about 25,000 refugees were moved from the Superdome in New Orleans to the Astrodome in Houston."
For days, we've watched the tragedy continue to unfold in Mississippi and Louisiana and, if you are like me, you've wrestled with feelings of shock and disbelief...feelings that, over the last five years, have become all too familiar. We were barely into the new millennium when we saw towers falling in New York City and planes crashing into the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania farmland. We saw bombs over Baghdad and witnessed the ancient land of Abraham become a war zone for his ancestors. You'd think we had seen enough, but then came the tsunamia roaring wave that sucked life and innocence out to sea.
And now the fruits of Katrina. A city sitting in twenty feet of water. Citizens hacking their way onto roofs and helicopters hovering over neighborhoods. Optimistic rescuers, opportunistic looters, grateful people, resentful people--we have seen it all.
And many have seen it up close. Katrina came to San Antonio in the form of 12,500 evacuees. Many of you are meeting them, feeding them, writing checks, and manning shifts. And you, as much as any, have reason to wonder... What is going on here? 9/11, Iraq, tsunami, Katrina. And I didn't mention nor intend to minimize Hurricanes Dennis and Ivan and Emily.
Jesus criticized the leaders of his day for focusing on the weather and ignoring the signals: "You find it easy enough to forecast the weather -- why can't you read the signs of the times?" Matthew 16:2-3 (MSG).
What are we to learn from all of this? Is God sending us a message? I think so. And, I think we'd be wise to pay attention. There are some ! spiritual law lessons that I think God would want us to learn through this tragedy. The first lesson we see is...
I. The Nature of Possessions: Temporary
As you've listened to evacuees and survivors, have you noticed their words? No one laments a lost plasma television or submerged SUV. No one runs through the streets yelling, "My cordless drill is missing" or "My golf clubs have washed away." If they mourn, it is for people lost. If they rejoice, it is for people found.
Could Jesus be reminding us that people matter more than possessions? In a land where we have more malls than high schools, more debt than credit, more clothes to wear than we can wear, could Christ be saying: "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions" (Luke 12:15)?
We see an entire riverboat casino washed up three blocks and placed on top of a house in a neighborhood. You see demolished $40,000 cars that will never be driven again, hidden in debris. And in the background of our minds we hear the quiet echoes of Jesus saying, "What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" (Matthew 16:26).
Raging hurricanes and broken levees have a way of prying our fingers off the stuff we love. What was once most precious now means little; what we once ignored is now of eternal significance.
A friend and I attended a worship service at Antioch Baptist Church last Sunday night. Several African American Church leaders had organized an assembly to pray for the evacuees that have ended up in San Antonio. Many of them sat on the front rows...dressed in all the clothing they owned: t-shirts, jeans. Their faces were weary from the week. But when the music started and the worship began, they came to their feet and sang with tears in their eyes.
They were rich. Are you that rich? Were all your possession washed away, could you sit! all worship? Would you still worship? If not, you are holding to hinges too tightly: "Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage--to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they'll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life" (1 Timothy 6:17-19 MSG).
Through Katrina, Christ tells us: stuff doesn't matter; people do. Understand the nature of possessions. Be equally clear on:
II. The Nature of People: Sinners and Saints
We see the most incredible servants and stories of selflessness and sacrifice. We see people of the projects rescuing their neighbors, we see civil servants risking their lives for people they've never seen. My wife Denalyn and I toured a shelter supervised by one of our neighbors here in San Antonio. We met a family of some twenty cousins and siblings.
One six-year-old girl told Denalyn about the helicopter man who plucked her off a third story porch and lifted her to safety.
That child will never know who that man is. He'll never seek any applause. He saved her life... all in a day's work. We saw humanity at its best. And we saw humanity at its worst.
Looting. Fighting. We heard stories of rapes and robberies. Someone said, "The heavens declare the glory of God but the streets declare the sinfulness of man." The video footage in New Orleans has confirmed the truthfulness of that quote. Can you imagine not being able to sleep in the Superdome for fear that someone might try to rape your daughter if she went to the restroom in the middle of the night?
We are people of both dignity and depravity. The hurricane blew back more than roofs; it blew the mask off the nature of mankind. The main problem in the world is not Mother Nature, but human nature. Strip away the police barricades, blow down the fences, and the real self is revealed. We are barbaric to the core.
We were born with a me-first mentality. You don't have to teach your kids to argue. They don't have to be trained to demand their way. You don't have to show them how to stomp their feet and pout, it is their nature... indeed it is all of our nature to do so. "All of us have strayed like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own" (Isaiah 53:6).
God's chosen word for our fallen condition has three letters- s-I-n. Sin celebrates the letter in the middle. "I". Left to our own devices, we lead a godless, out of control life of doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it" (Ephesians 2:3 MSG).
You don't have to go to New Orleans to see the chaos. Because of sin, the husband ignores his wife, grown men seduce the young. The young proposition the old. When you do what you want and I do what I want, humanity and civility implodes.
And when the Katrinas of life blown in, our true nature is revealed and our deepest need is unveiled: a need deeper than food, more permanent than firm levees. We need, not a new system, but a new nature. We need to be changed from the inside out. Which takes us to the third message of Katrina:
III. The Nature of God's Grace: Inside Out
Much discussion revolves around the future of New Orleans. Will the city be restored? Repaired? How long will it take? Who will pay for it? One thing is for certain: someone has to clean her up.
No one is suggesting otherwise. Everyone knows, someone has to go in a clean up the mess. That is what God offers to do with us. He comes into sin-flooded lives and washes away the old. Paul reflected on his conversion and he wrote: "He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5). Our sins stand no chance against the fire hoses of God's grace.
But he does more than cleanse us; he rebuilds us. In the form of his Holy Spirit, God moves in and starts a complete renovation project. "God can do anything, far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us." (Ephesians 3:20 MSG).
And what we can only dream of doing with New Orleans, God has done with soul after soul, and he will do so with you, if you let him.
The most disturbing stories from the last week are of those who refused to be rescued. Those who spent their final hours trapped in attics and rooms regretting the choice they'd made. They could have been saved. They could have gotten out... but they chose to stay. Many paid a permanent price.
You don't have to pay that price. What rescuers did for people on the Gulf Coast, God will do for you. He has entered your world. He has dropped a rope into your sin-swamped life. He will rescue, you simply need to do what that little girl did, let him lift you out.
I mentioned my visit to Antioch Baptist Church last Sunday night. A local minister, Pastor L. A. Williams gave a message on this one verse: "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord..." (Gen. 6:8).
The minister helped us see all the things Noah could not find because of the flood. He could not find his neighborhood. He could not find his house. He could not find the comforts of home or the people down the street--there was much he could not find. But what he could find made all the difference. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah found grace in the eyes of God. If you have everything and no grace, you have nothing. If you have nothing but grace, you have everything.
Have you found grace? If not, I urge you to do what that little girl told us she did. When the rescuer appeared on her porch, she grabbed him, closed her eyes, and held on. That's all you need to do. And if you never have, and would like to, I urge you to reach for the hand of your rescuer, Jesus Christ.
Your Redeemer lives, too. This hurricane was his tool to get your attention. Trust in Him while you still can.
Max Lucado, © 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
Surrender
sur·ren·der v., -dered, -der·ing, -ders.
v.tr.
To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.
To give up in favor of another.
To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.
To give up or abandon: surrender all hope.
To give over or resign (oneself) to something, as to an emotion: surrendered himself to grief.
Law.
To restore (an estate, for example), especially to give up (a lease) before expiration of the term.
v.intr.
To give oneself up, as to an enemy.
n.
The act or an instance of surrendering.
Law.
The delivery of a prisoner, fugitive from justice, or other principal in a suit into legal custody.
The act of surrendering or of being surrendered to bail.
Restoration of an estate.
[Middle English surrenderen, from Old French surrendre : sur-, sur- + rendre, to deliver; see render.]
SYNONYMS
surrender, submission, capitulation. These nouns denote the act of giving up one's person, one's possessions, or people under one's command to the authority, power, or control of another. Surrender is the most general: “No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted” (Ulysses S. Grant).
Submission stresses the subordination of the side that has yielded: “Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission” (George Washington).
Capitulation implies surrender under specific prearranged conditions: Lack of food and ammunition forced the capitulation of the rebels.
Surrender
Written by Marc James
I'm giving you all my heart, and all that is within
I lay it all down for the sake of you my King
I'm giving you my dreams, I'm laying down my rights
I'm giving up my pride for the promise of new life
(chorus)
And I surr-ender all to you, all to you
And I surr-ender all to you, all to you
I'm singing you this song, I'm singing at the cross
And all the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
For the sake of knowing you the glory of your name
To know the lasting joy even sharing in your pain
© 2000 Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire)
Album: Surrender/Vineyard
v.tr.
To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.
To give up in favor of another.
To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.
To give up or abandon: surrender all hope.
To give over or resign (oneself) to something, as to an emotion: surrendered himself to grief.
Law.
To restore (an estate, for example), especially to give up (a lease) before expiration of the term.
v.intr.
To give oneself up, as to an enemy.
n.
The act or an instance of surrendering.
Law.
The delivery of a prisoner, fugitive from justice, or other principal in a suit into legal custody.
The act of surrendering or of being surrendered to bail.
Restoration of an estate.
[Middle English surrenderen, from Old French surrendre : sur-, sur- + rendre, to deliver; see render.]
SYNONYMS
surrender, submission, capitulation. These nouns denote the act of giving up one's person, one's possessions, or people under one's command to the authority, power, or control of another. Surrender is the most general: “No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted” (Ulysses S. Grant).
Submission stresses the subordination of the side that has yielded: “Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission” (George Washington).
Capitulation implies surrender under specific prearranged conditions: Lack of food and ammunition forced the capitulation of the rebels.
Surrender
Written by Marc James
I'm giving you all my heart, and all that is within
I lay it all down for the sake of you my King
I'm giving you my dreams, I'm laying down my rights
I'm giving up my pride for the promise of new life
(chorus)
And I surr-ender all to you, all to you
And I surr-ender all to you, all to you
I'm singing you this song, I'm singing at the cross
And all the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
For the sake of knowing you the glory of your name
To know the lasting joy even sharing in your pain
© 2000 Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire)
Album: Surrender/Vineyard
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