Known as the “Prince of Preachers,” 19th century minister Charles Spurgeon once said, “If God were a tyrant, it might be courageous to resist submitting, but since he is a Father it is ungrateful to rebel.” In a later sermon, Spurgeon gave excellent reasons why we should submit to God:

We should submit to God because He created us.
We should submit to God because His rule is good for us.
We should submit to God because all resistance to Him is futile.
We should submit to God because such submission is absolutely necessary to salvation.
We should submit to God because it is the only way to have peace with God.

The Spiritual Journey can never be completed without total surrender to God. Society today is rife with rebellion. But Spurgeon says, “I desire to whisper one little truth in your ear, and I pray that it may startle you: You are submitting even now. You say, ‘Not I; I am lord of myself.’ I know you think so, but all the while you are submitting to the devil. The verse of James 4:7 hints at this very thing. ‘Submit yourselves unto God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ If you do not submit to God you never will resist the devil, and you will remain constantly under his tyrannical power. Which shall be your master, God or devil, for one of these must? No man is without a master.”

Writings by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volumes 7-63, Pilgrim Publications, 1990