Surrender; to cease resistance, to lay down one’s agenda, to yield, to raise a white flag.

Lately, the topic of surrender has been on my mind. If I think about it, I’ve been in a season of surrender. Honestly, I think a lot of our relationship with The Lord looks like surrender. Surrendering our plans to follow His, saying no to one thing to say yes to His, laying down our ideas of how it should look for how He is teaching us it will look with Him.

Surrender is one of the hardest things to choose into. I was going to say give into, but actually, surrender isn’t something you just easily give up into, it’s a choice. An active choice. See, when we surrender, we are consciously choosing into something other than what we are wanting. We are putting our hopes, our dreams, our desires into someone else’s hands. Saying, “I trust your ideas and plans are better than anything I could dream up. I trust that you have my best in mind.”

Trust Is Hard, Resistance Is Easy

It’s easy to resist when things are not going how you planned. I think it’s natural to want to keep things the same. To fight for things to be the way they were before something came in and wrecked it. And sometimes the fight is needed and it’s worth it. But other times, it ends up becoming resistance. And when things go haywire and out of control, it can feel hard to trust in anything.

It took me a long time to learn the character of God as trustworthy. Consistent. Kind. Loving. It took a lot of work and a lot of vulnerable moments of letting Him into the deepest parts of my heart. And I’m still learning. I don’t believe we ever stop learning who He is. But I will say knowing His character and learning to trust who He is, is so vital.

Because it’s like having a weapon. When the battle of life comes, I now have something to fight with. A confidence in knowing WHO my God is. That HE is consistent, loving towards me, trustworthy, with me in the changes, and never quickly changing His plans or mind on me. Trust is hard, but I promise it is worth the journey of learning how to let a loving, joyous Father in.

Learning to surrender

Surrender is ceasing to resist change. How do we do that? We learn how to trust Him in the process. We learn how to let Him in. How to allow Him to love us in our messiest places. It’s not easy, trust me, I’m aware. But oh it’s so so very worth it, friend. I never knew a God so kind and loving as I do now. And it’s taken me 8+ years to get here. I know it feels hard now. I know it feels like things are never going to change for the better. I’ve been there, it’s a really tough place to be.

But He’s there. He’s there awaiting your attention. Desperately wanting to fill your heart with the love and affirmation it needs. And we can choose to resist Him and do it alone. But the choice to actively surrender and choose into a God who is waiting to comfort us? So worth it.

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