Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

This is the passage read in the pastor’s sermon. Here are my notes from that verse.

“All we are is His, a given self is being lost in Christ.”

Let me first say that the pastor did not say or preach that. I cannot say that any one specific thought gave birth to that note. Over the years I have been impressed with things like the worship song, I Surrender All, Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highness, and even secular imaging of “Lost in Your Love”. What might have happened is a composite of truths that were summarized in just one moment.

I give it to you to understand it from your own experience. Your depth of experience with love will be different than mine. It is not better or deeper or more profound than anyone else. It is yours. I can tell you what it means to me, they are my notes. Only you can take a verse and make it personal.

I will be the first to admit that surrendering yourself to another is scary. You feel out of control. If you have control issues you may find that difficult if not impossible. I dare say that when most of us come to Christ the last thing we are thinking about is surrender. I was in pain and I just wanted the pain to stop. At that particular moment in my life I wasn’t thinking about love.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

It is not a coincidence that this verse appears right after the bibles best description of how love acts.

1 John 4:18a There is no fear in love;

Being lost in Christ is not a fearful thing.