More Needed Than Surrender
But there are multitudes of Christians who are truly surrendered, holding nothing back, who do not have Victory. For the surrendered life is not necessarily the Victorious Life. Surrender is our part. The supernatural work of Victory is God’s part. God is doing his part as soon as we yield ourselves, and we get the benefit of it when we believe that fact. This is Victory by faith. “Faith does nothing. Faith believes that God is doing it all.” Faith is just believing the word of God. Those marvelous promises, or rather “facts” of God’s Grace which have been quoted above can only be received by the Christian who is holding nothing back from God. Then all the rest is God’s work.
Is he faithful? We have surrendered. Is our part then to believe that God will give us Victory? No, that is not faith. “Victory’s final secret,” as Mr. Trumbull has put it, is to believe that Christ is doing his part, that his Grace is sufficient, that we are free from the law of sin, that we are under Grace and not under law and that therefore sin is not having dominion over us, that he is meeting all our needs, but we are walking in the Spirit. This is “letting God.”
Will you not “let go, and let God?” Now?
If you do, you can say with Paul, not only as a truth of your position in Christ, but as the blessed truth of your experience: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal. 2:20).