How Badly Do You Want It?

Early this morning, I came to the realization that there are somethings in my life that I have not given up completely. I may say that it is something that I want to get over and leave in the past, but am I really fully committed to doing so? I myself didn't really see this, but a friend of mine did. I as lying to myself basically. Convincing myself that the things that were still tempting me were non existance. I was ignoring the things that were bringing me down because I didn't want to think that they still had a stronghold on me. Meanwhile, while I was ignorning it and hurting myself, I was hurting others as well. One thing that I definetely learned during this was that our actions, even if we don't think this as true, hurt others that are close to us. I love how we discover things, and then something that is talked about later on in chapel or in church has a lot to do with what you just discovered. That happened today! During chapel, we were talking about how Christ did so much for us, He surrendered His life, so now it is time for us to surrender our lives. I am determined to surrender my life more than what I have been. I know, that kind of doesn't make sense. Let me explain. I am going to give it more than the 30-40 percent that I have been giving it. Instead, why not give it 100 percent or possibly even more? I don't want to be stuck in the past, I want to move forward and be set free more than I could ever imagine.