June 2026

June 2026: Death to Self

Surrender Part 2 — The Ongoing Crucifixion

In January, you were introduced to Surrender — the open hand, the bowed knee, the willingness to say, 'Not my will, but Yours.' You learned its foundations, traced its contours in Scripture, and began practicing the daily posture of yielding. But now we go deeper. Much deeper.

June is not Surrender Part 2 in the sense of reviewing last semester's notes. It is Surrender taken to its logical and terrifying conclusion. Because the end of true surrender is not merely a submissive posture — it is death. The death of self. The ongoing crucifixion of the old nature so that Christ alone might live and reign.

The five postures of SHAWL — Surrender, Humility, Abide, Wait, Listen — are not merely spiritual practices. They are invitations into transformation. And transformation, in the Kingdom of God, always passes through death before it arrives at resurrection. You cannot skip the cross to get to Easter. The tomb is not optional on the way to new life.

These thirty days will take you through thirty specific dimensions of death to self. Some will feel familiar. Others may surprise or unsettle you — areas of the self you did not know were still entrenched. Welcome both. The Spirit is at work.

The goal is not morbidity. It is not spiritual self-punishment. The goal is the extraordinary life that emerges on the other side of dying — the life of Christ, flowing through you with less and less obstruction as the self continues to decrease and He continues to increase.

Come. Fall into the ground. The harvest is waiting.