But, it may be objected, how can a Christian surrender? Does he not already belong to Christ? Ah, that is the sad tragedy of it. Will a man rob God? Yes, the Church of Christ is largely robbing him to-day of the only offering he cares for――ourselves as living sacrifices. We are indeed bought with a price, the precious blood of Christ, we are not our own, we belong to him. Have _you_ acknowledged this ownership in every detail, not with your lips alone, but with your life, in its every action? That is the first requirement for Victory. And Victory will never be enjoyed until the surrender question is settled. An earnest young Christian woman was in defeat and distress because there was something she would not yield. She acknowledged it was pride, but she could not give it up. “Whom do you belong to?” she was asked. “Christ.” “What price did he pay for you?” “His own life.” “But you are saying to him there is something you are holding back. What are you doing?” “I suppose I am crucifying him afresh,” she answered, the tears coming. “Yes, you are robbing him.” But the struggle went on and she would not yield. “Will you kneel down and just tell the Lord that you are robbing him, and that you intend to keep on robbing him?” She shrank from such a thought, and she kneeled down and told her Lord that she _would_ yield that one thing she was holding back, and that there was nothing that she was not willing to do that he wanted. She arose with a radiant face, and as the days went on it developed that God did not want her to do the thing she was shrinking back from doing. A Christian may be kept out of victory because he says he would not be willing to go to the mission field, or send his sons to the mission field. God _may not want him to go_, but he can never have Victory as long as there is an unwillingness to do what God _may_ want him to do. For this is doubting God and his love. More Needed Than Surrender But there are multitudes of Christians who are truly surrendered, holding nothing back, who do not have Victory. For the surrendered life is not necessarily the Victorious Life. Surrender is _our_ part. The supernatural work of Victory is _God’s_ part. _God is doing his part as soon as we yield ourselves_, and we get the benefit of it when we believe that fact. This is Victory by faith. “Faith does nothing. Faith believes that God is doing it all.” Faith is just believing the word of God. Those marvelous promises, or rather “facts” of God’s Grace which have been quoted above can only be received by the Christian who is holding nothing back from God. Then all the rest is God’s work.