Lately, I’ve been thinking and attempting to put into practice, the power of surrender—surrendering to God. It’s not easy to say, let alone and mean, Your will be done, Lord. Yet that is what we’re exhorted to do. Jesus said to pray like this and used the Lord’s Prayer as a template.
Surrender our futures.
Surrender our loved ones.
Surrender our lives in every aspect.
This week, my beloved calico cat went missing. I cried and cried. Her littermate cried and cried, which made me cry harder. I and many others prayed for her safe return. Finally, last night, 3.5 days, I gave up. I accepted that God had His reason for my cat being gone and I let her go to God’s purpose.
She came home this morning.
We don’t always get what we want when we surrender things. I’d like to live somewhere else and am really quite at peace about it after much prayer about moving on and know it’s no for the next few months anyway. No, I’m not moving now, as I wish I could, and I have surrendered that desire to the purpose God has for bringing and keeping me here.
Have you surrendered your will to the Lord? What were the consequences/results?
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