Every Knee will Bow

My devotional lately has been talking about surrending to God, here's what it had to say today,
If you hear echos of C.S. Lewis in what I'm saying, that's because he has been one of the most influential author-as well as one of the most significant Christians and teachers in my life (though he died ten years before i was born). This not the first time I've mentioned him, and it won't be the last. Sometime in high school, i picked up his startling little book Mere Christianity, and i felt like a sane person for the first time in my life. For years the surrounding culture had made me feel like an idiot for believing in God and Jesus. This was the eighties, remember, before spirituality was "cool". Then came along C.S. Lewis, who calmly picked me up by the tail and threw me back into the water. And i realized i wasn't crazy. In Fact, i was saner than most. Here's one of his statements that made sense the instant i read it: "fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms". So we're back to the issue of surrender again. Yes, we will surrender in the end. (see Philippians 2:10-11). The question is whether we'll lay down our arms willingly now, or if one day we'll find ourselves on the wrong side of the battlefield, the hosts of heaven arrayed before us as an army with banners- Sarah Arthur. 

When i read the verse for this devotional, I  instantly gravitated toward verse eight which says, " And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-even death on a cross".  Think about it, Jesus died for all of us, he obeyed God even though deep down inside he was scared but he knew he had to do it. I think about my own life and all of those times where God has told me do something, and i just said to him, "are you serious, that's crazy." But in the times when i obey God and do those things that i cannot even wrap my mind around, i learn so much from it, even though in the begginning i was unsure. today i was thinking about the song "shout to the Lord", while i was listening to the waves wash up on the beach. Listen to it here- Shout to the Lord

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God,
   did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
   by taking the very nature of a servant,
   being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
   he humbled himself
   by becoming obedient to death—
      even death on a cross!
 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
   and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
   in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
   to the glory of God the Father.- Philippians 2:5-11