Jesus, all for Jesus?

Jesus, all for Jesus,
All I am and have and ever hope to be.
Jesus, all for Jesus,
All I am and have and ever hope to be.

All of my ambitions, hopes and plans
I surrender these into Your hands.
All of my ambitions, hopes and plans
I surrender these into Your hands.

For it's only in Your will that I am free,
For it's only in Your will that I am free,
Jesus, all for Jesus,
All I am and have and ever hope to be.

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I went to a confirmation service yesterday for two of my friends from CU, and this song was sung there, it really touched me again (I love this song so much) and sometimes you forget these amazing, simplistic songs that mean so much. By simplistic I mean that the words and phrases are repeated, but they mean so much, and have such a vast amount of meaning to me. Just helped me to get out of my rut that I'd created and fall at the feet of the Creator God.

In my small group today we were looking at Romans 12, and being sacrifices; this is our spiritual act of worship. In some versions the word spiritual has been replaced with true or reasonable. Meaning that for what God has done for us, in sending his Son to die for sinful humankind, the least we can do for Him is to fully worship Him and lay down our lives (and actively keep laying our lives down-[we are LIVING SACRIFICES] that means we can get off the altar at any time, we must keep getting back on).

We are only free in God's will; we sing this, but do we actually fully understand or appreciate the meaning behind it? What does it mean to be free in God's will? To our minds being free in someone else's will is a bit of an oxymoron, isn't it?