How can a person surrender himself to victory? Let’s understand it with a small story from the book “The Christian’s secret of a happy life” written by Hanna Smith. The story states about a man who was descending into a dry well to find whether there is water in it. He tied a long rope on the post of the well and went down into that dark well through the rope. While going down, he suddenly realizes that he reached at the end of the rope. He elongated his legs by holding on the tip of the rope to find the bottom. Since it was dark, he was not even able to guess the depth. He became bewildered. He thought of leaving his hands from the rope, his mind denied that idea in the next second. Falling down into such a recondite well itself equates to death. So, he decided to return using the same rope. But it was not easy. He was so tired that he was not even able to move up a bit. Yet he tried to ascend through that rope, but his effort was in vain and he was hanging there at the end of that rope.
The man was not able to do anything except holding his hands tightly on the rope. He cried loudly for help. But his sound did not come into anyone’s notice as it is from that deep well. As time passes, he became more tired and the strength of his voice became thinned. His throat was dry and he wanted to drink some water. Yet, he strained to raise his voice and cried loudly by gathering all his strength. But there was no answer. He became weaker and finally he decided to leave his hands from the rope. He prayed “Oh Lord, receive my spirit”. He left his hands and was expecting himself to fall down in a very deep well, but it was a miracle. In less than half a meter, his legs touched soil, where he could find enough water to drink. He suffered all those mortal pain just above half a meter from the bottom of that well.
This small story bespeaks the truth that 'absolute surrender' leads to a successful life. The real spiritual soul is different from worldly law. When world says “Never surrender and surrendering is a failure”, the real spirituality urges us to surrender and that surrender leads us to “the real victory”. The world again says that “God helps those who help themselves”, but real spirituality does not want you to do that. It wants you to leave all the worries and be calm. God asks us to stay without worries since we have a father who takes care of Birds of the sky and Lilies of the fields. He will never leave us, his sons and daughters.
The divine way of success is ‘the complete surrender’ and ‘total submission’. When we submit the past, present and future of our life in God’s hands, we gain victory and freedom. When we are ready to look into God’s face by leaving everything including our efforts to help ourselves, success follows us. For that we need to remove the intimidation about our future and need to leave our hands from that postulating rope. Don’t worry, if you are leaving it with a deep faith in God, you will not fall into depth. God, the real rock will hold you and save you in a place very nearby. So, leave your hands and surrender. Let eternal success follow you, forever.