What Does Surrender Actually Look Like?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to say that Jesus is the Lord of your life?
We hear this phrase a lot in the Church, that Jesus is the Lord of our lives, that he has dominion over them. But what does this look like practically? If we just look at the definition, it means surrendering everything we have to God, and giving it to him without hesitation. But how can we truly surrender everything to him without fearing we won’t get it back?
Today, Fr. Mike talks about how we can surrender to God daily.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been thinking about the idea of surrender. |
| 0:02.2 | Or let's say like this, the idea when someone says, |
| 0:04.9 | hey, just give it to God. |
| 0:06.0 | Whatever your beloved is, whatever the thing you love the most, |
| 0:08.6 | you gotta give that to God. |
| 0:10.0 | You gotta sacrifice that. |
| 0:10.9 | You gotta hand over your Isaac. |
| 0:12.3 | What is it? |
| 0:13.1 | How is it that we just give something to God? |
| 0:15.4 | How is it that we surrender to God? |
| 0:17.3 | How many of you have been thinking about the Lord? |
| 0:32.5 | So that's what it comes down to. |
| 0:34.9 | Is a lot of us are called, well, sorry, all of us are called |
| 0:37.8 | to allow Jesus Christ to be the Lord of our lives. |
| 0:39.9 | What does it mean to say Jesus is the Lord of my life? |
| 0:42.3 | I think it means a lot of things, |
| 0:43.4 | but one of the things that it absolutely means |
| 0:46.1 | is that I'll say other churchy words. |
| 0:48.7 | It means that he has dominion over my life. |
| 0:51.6 | So if he's the Lord, right, that he has dominion. |
| 0:54.2 | If he's the Lord, he gets to be the Lord |
| 0:56.1 | over everything that I have and everything that I am |
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