More Debt (continuing 'Under Obligation')

I woke up today and wanted to now submit and surrender to Him.

I've been using the analogy of a mortgage payment. When I make the payment and thus, adhere to the obligation, the result is clearly that my family and I remain in our house.

So, what happens when we submit and surrender to Him? What happens when I honestly turn over ME to Him? And how do I do this?

Perhaps it's a simple prayer. "Lord, I submit to You my life. I surrender my will to You. I seek to be conformed, not to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of my mind (Romans 12:2). Lord, I want to be shaped by You. May my life simply be clay and you shape me to live a life in accordance with Your Son, the Perfect One."

There I go.

And now, with confidence I can know that sanctification will result (Romans 6:19). With the same surety in the result of continuing to have a house to live in when I make that mortgage payment, I can know for sure that God will bear fruit in my life and I will be sancitfied or made holy or made seperate from being in the flesh. I remember the 80s tune from Simple Minds, "Sanctify yourself, set yourself free." For me, that means submitting.

Whoa.