Surrender is a pretty big word. it's about giving up when you can't take it anymore and leaving it in someone else's hands. surrendering to Jesus is a learning process. you don't just surrender cause someone said it's the right thing to do. it's not that easy.
i found that in learning to surrender, you are first overwhelmed by your struggles. people always remind us that the Bible says we should cast out anxieties on Him because He cares. i never got the meaning of casting my anxieties because no matter how much i cast, they still feel, well uncasted.
sure, i've surrendered, but it always seems that in the end, i take back my surrender.
they say we learn to walk through falling. 'they' have got their facts right. i would think it is impossible to truly surrender to God unless we have first experienced total helplessness.
doing what Jesus would have done is terribly hard. i mean, Jesus would have loved and forgiven someone even if the person killed his family. i could never do that.
but hey, i'd like to have one heck of a time trying, because that is what God wants us to do. to be like Jesus.
fear of what may happen if we take a wrong step, of indeed, if we do the right thing may paralyse our ability to trust.
surrendering to Him is done step by step. little by little as we loosen our grip on our struggles and let Jesus take control, we learn how wonderful surrendering can be and we yearn to surrender more, until God willing, our whole lives are lived in full surrender to God.
No, i have not reached that goal. the learning process is long, and more often than we'd like to, we take our eyes off the goal and we stumble in the process.
yes, i fear. to me, my fear is so very real. but who can better lead me than the One who has it all planned out for me to perfection?
so i fall, knowing that the more i do, the more i stand to learn. only praying that i can one day surrender all.
3 comments:
keep praying....thing will work out!!!!
cheer up....
no one will like to c u sad!!!!
lolz~~~~
juz walk with God....
been there, done that! I sure know how hard that is. But then again, no one says surrendering is gonna be easy. It never was, never is, and never will be. Even Jesus said, "If you will, take this cup away". But the catch is this:"Not my will, but Yours be done!"
Surrendering, to me, is doing all that I can, and let God do the magic for the rest of it. At least this is what I've come to learn. And the end product is always amazing! You'll be awe-struck.
yeah, time and time again we experience how God works wonders in our lives but still when the time comes to trust again, we doubt.
takes a lotta conviction to pray 'not my will but yours be done' and not hoping for the opposite.
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