You're Surrounded, Come out with your hands up!

You're surrounded, come out with your hands up! Have you ever felt like God had to hunt you down in order to get you to surrender? God doesn't hunt us down and arrest us to take us to jail. He hunts us down and arrests us to get us to surrender to His will. We not surrounded by a posse of God's deputies, but are surrounded by those that have gone before us singing songs of deliverance. Even though we have all violated God's law, we are surrounded by God's mercy. We have no reason to fear going to prison, as we already in prison. We have been incarcerated by our sin. We are in a self-made prison of fear, worry, regret, and doubt, tormented by our response to life. God isn't looking to arrest us to put us into prison, but to set us free from prison. God is calling us to come out with our hands up, and to surrender. Are you willing to throw your hands up into the air and surrender? Are you willing to be set free from the power of sin?


Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit. When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You In a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters They shall not come near him. You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him. Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; And shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
(Psa 32:1-11)