SURRENDER

I confess. I am still learning surrender. Often, I fight it. It feels like I’m giving up; or that, I don’t have any significant role or purpose in the outcome. If true, where does that leave me? Am I simply a pawn in a cosmic chess game?

However, what I am learning is this: There’s a strange strength that rises when I finally stop fighting what was never mine to control. I have so many hours… days… frankly, decades… life clutching—white-knuckling outcomes, timing, and the “how” or “why” of things… working, fretting, digging in like it all depends on me, on my effort. 

In a recent lightbulb moment, revelation came…a sacred breaking point. In that moment came my silent whisper, “God, this isn’t right. I can’t keep up like this.”

That silent between-God-and-me whisper sparked something… the power of surrender began to percolate in my mind and heart. 

Surrender isn’t waving a white flag in defeat… giving up. It’s raising your hands in trust… giving over. It’s letting go of the illusion that my control equals peace. I am learning that true peace comes not from mastering every circumstance but from fully resting in the One who already has.

When Jesus said, “Not my will, but Yours be done,” it wasn’t resignation—it was the revelation of holy surrender. In surrender, He wasn’t losing; He was aligning with the calling of His Father. And alignment with the Father always leads to resurrection power.

Maybe you’re smack dap in that in-between place. You know. It’s the one where you’re between what you hoped for and what is. Between what you can’t fix and what God is shaping. Call a timeout. Pause. Breathe deeply. God’s hands are not careless… hopeless… giving up. Each surrender is an offer for Him to do what only He can do. 

I keep learning… surrender multiplies peace and grows trust. 

Prayer:

Lord, teach me that surrender is not giving up—it’s giving over. Help me loosen my grip on what I cannot control, and trust You with what I cannot see. May my “yes” become the soil where Your will takes root and bears lasting fruit.

For Best Things…

Craig