There seem to be very few times when we don’t know. Right now, we find ourselves deeply set in one of those times.
I had a year of this in 2013. It was a year that changed me in the best of ways. My daughter’s heart failed, and the next twelve months were full of uncertainty. The future looked dim at times and impossible at others.
When the unknown became our normal, I had to surrender to it.
It took some breaking in me, and it was a little painful. Okay, maybe a lot painful. As I fought for control, I realized that I had less and less of it. What I found is that when I loosened my grip, I watched God come to the rescue.
When we surrender to the unknown, we will find that none of this is surprising to God, and He is right here in it with us.
I had to start trusting God more than I trusted myself. When I surrendered that trust in myself, I found that God can be trusted. I found I preferred to live reliant on my God rather than on myself. I preferred to lay all of my plans in God’s hands because He is trustworthy. I learned that when things don’t seem to be going my way, His way is better.
What if we take these next few weeks as a gift and practice handing our God our everything. Practice surrendering the time and the circumstances into His hands and asking Him to work it out. Practice trusting Him to hold the pieces, practice trusting Him to give us the patience to make it. What if we practiced doing all that we can and then walking away and surrendering the results to Him.
Living surrendered is placing the pieces of our lives into the hands of our God, who will carry them with the utmost care. When there is so little we can plan right now, handing over the pieces of our lives is a plan we can follow and one we can trust.
Trust is a muscle, and trust in our God can become a lifestyle. I believe if we work like it depends on us and pray like it depends on God, we will find that surrendered is the best way to live forever.
HLLF,
