From Surrender To Transcendance

When I searched about the spiritual fruits in Galatians, I came to recognize that I need to learn more about surrender in order to get peace.

Well, let's start with surrender [1]to who? [2]for what? and then [3]how? and [4] why?

In Matthew 16:24-26

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses hi s life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits for his soul.""

Jesus calls upon His followers to reject the natural human inclination toward self. The first step is to submit and [1] surrender to God our will, our affections, our bodies, and our lives. Our own pleasures and happiness can no longer be primary goals. Instead, we must be willing to renounce all and lay down our lives, if required. Peter admonishes us to "no longer live . . . in the flesh for the lusts of men," meaning we should no longer pursue [2] wrong desires. Are we willing to forsake all, to give up everything including our lives? Our Christian duty is [3] to deny our lust of the flesh.

Jesus is actually talking about giving one's life [3] in total obedience and service to God—even giving up all things, including our own lives, if He should ever require that of us—[4] in return for eternal life.

[3] Repentance—surrendering to God—is not a matter of "giving up" everything good.
repentance is positive. Not only do we escape the penalties of sin through repentance, it is also the way to innumerable positive benefits in this life! Repentance emphatically does not mean we must give up the use or appreciation of material things. What God is interested in is the attitude we have toward material things—whether we seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

Put another way, our obligation is to love Them as They loved us—not a resigned attitude of "Okay, I'll do it because I have to" that issues in low-level, letter-of-the-law obedience, but a love that expresses itself in fervent, sacrificial affection, as the woman in Luke 7 exemplified. This level of love is reasonable to pursue because it drives us far beyond mere superficial conformity. Notice how Romans 12:1-2 draws our attention to this:

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Paul proclaims that this sacrificial love will serve to transform us and provide the proof we need to bolster us in following God's will.