Surrender

Last night we finished up Storyline for the year. We talked about surrender and how each of us who call ourselves Christians need to surrender our thoughts and wants and desires to Him. God has something unique for each of us but will not reveal that until we surrender to Him. Realizing that we live for a different reason than non-christians. We live for Christ. This world is not our home.
I was reading my Bible this morning and came across this passage in Ephesians 4. It says,
" Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."
Seems to me to really break down why we are to surrender our lives.