Ellen's Reviews > Absolute Surrender: How to Walk in Perfect Peace

I started this book three times over the past couple years and finally made it all the way through. I guess I was just ready for it this time. Absolutely amazing and clarifying stuff on sanctification and grace and how God works on/in people.

Murray's point: it's coming to a point of helplessness in ourselves, that empties us for Christ to fill us --- and then true fruit can be born, from his strength, not ours. It's not our trying that sanctifies us or allows us to do "kingdom work", but a sense of our inability to do and obey, combined with close communion with Jesus, and faith that through the Spirit he will give us the power to do what he's commanded. The law is important and obedience is important but we cannot try to do it by our own strength or we will fail horribly. The Christian life is total dependence on Christ from first to last... hallelujah.

"The cause of the weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly, and to let God help you. And that cannot be. You must come to be utterly helpless, to let God work. He will work gloriously. It is this that we need if we are indeed to be workers for God."

"The will of man is nothing but an empty vessel in which the power of God is to be made manifest. Man must seek in God all that is to be."

"No one who learns to rest on the living Christ can become slothful. The closer your contact with Christ, the more the Spirit of His zeal and love will be borne in upon you."