THE WAY OF COMPLETE SURRENDER - A POSTURE OF THE CROSS

     There are absolutely no coincidences when it comes to “the way and the truth and the life” that is SURRENDERING unto the divine nature and the eternal power of the living God of ALL creation, being the invisible qualities of God that have been plainly seen in all of creation since the foundation of time, (Romans 1:20).

     For when we lift up our hands and stretch out our arms in the pattern that is “the way” and “the truth” and “the life” of worship, through the Father’s heartfelt desire and premeditated design that all of creation honour and glorify His Son, we automatically approximate the posture of the Cross. Which is the posture of COMPLETE SURRENDER. For if it be fitting that One Son be happy to surrender all in love, then so too shouldn't all His sons?

     So God made a way. For where God has a will, God will always make a way. By the immense forethought of an astonishing forward-thinking God, a God who always sees the end of a thing from its beginning, when we spontaneously raise our arms up during worship in the unmistakable posture of surrender, then, in both spirit “and in truth”, we lay ourselves down on the altar of love on “an unseen Cross” at the very feet of an ever-present and all-mighty God.

     And just as with the alabaster jar with which the unknown woman once entered a house and perfumed Jesus feet, when we enter our Father’s house through our worship, being a worship that is the kind of “complete surrender” that represents the surrender of the Cross, which is the kind of complete surrender that is washing our Lord’s feet with our own tears and hair regardless of what others may think, for our Father in heaven, our worship is likewise a sweet smelling fragrance that anoints His feet with the oil of gladness and fills the nostrils of His throne room with joy.

     For did Jesus not explicitly speak of a time which has now come when the Father will be worshipped neither on the mountain of Jacob’s well nor in Jerusalem, but in Spirit and in truth? And did He not expressly say that these are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks? (John 4:23). For God is Spirit, and His worshippers must worship in Spirit and in truth. Which is to choose the good thing that Mary chose. For is it not written: “few things are needed--or indeed ONLY ONE. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her?" (Luke 10:42). Which is a lifestyle of worship by yielding ourselves permanently at the feet of our Maker in simple and complete surrender.

     And just like with the unknown woman in Luke, was it not Mary who also anointed Jesus’ feet with an expensive perfumed oil? Which would only be possible for someone who had grown accustomed to sitting at His feet. So too, then, when we worship our Father in heaven from His footstool of earth in Spirit and in truth, do we not also wipe His feet with our tears, and anoint His feet with sweet-smelling oil? For have those who worship in spirit and in truth not also grown accustomed to sitting permanently at His feet?