Total Surrender

Over the last year, almost exactly I took off for VA and from then til now it has been total surrender of every aspect of my life for the most part. Mainly with big decisions. If there has been a door that has opened I have lifted my hands and walked though it. For me to turn down a door that I feel God has opened is ludicrous in my mind.

So many verses in the Bible talk about surrender and about God being a guide and director that I really don\’t know what one to use or read. I have found myself in awe lately with how God has directed my life and guided me plays the people that I am coming in contact with plus the amount of impact that he has been able to create through someone as fallen and awful as I.

(NIV)Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; [6] in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

This is just one of the many verses that talks about trusting in the Lord. I have come to realize in this situation that surrendering and trusting go hand in hand with God. When you surrender to God you are staying I give up all my desires and pleasures and I am now trusting you to take care of me and to show me which way to go. I no longer want to or can do it on my own.

This almost tags along with a friend\’s blog that I read the other day about slaves. When you surrender you are practically becoming a slave. A slave to an all powerful creator. Your creator. It\’s a great place to be to because if you think about it a slave has only one thing to worry about and that is pleasing the master. Nothing else. The slave doesn\’t need to worry about what he will eat or where he will sleep or his clothes or his health insurance or his anything. That is the masters job. The only thing the slave has to worry about is pleasing the master. What a wonderful place.

I have been blessed by my master. He has chased me for a long time but when true surrender became part of my life and I stopped runing I finally got to see how God\’s slaves get to live. who wouldn\’t want to be a slave to God.

It is time to give credit where credit is due. I have done nothing in the last year. The players that have come to the school, the relationship found, friends made, fiance, car laying, everything has come from and will continue to come from God!