6.11.25 - complete surrender

Good morning ,

One of the greatest challenges I have with God is complete surrender. I find myself willing to give up a lot of control as long as I can still keep a little. What I have learned this year is it takes complete surrender. It's saying no to the world and saying yes to God, even when it's not what your plan was. It's denying your flesh in moments where you want to lash out, and instead controlling your tongue and responding in love. I've found myself asking God to make "my" plans successful instead of saying "Lord, these are my plans, but I only want what you want for me. I only want your will for my life because I trust your plans are better than mine." That's a hard prayer, because we want to make sure the plan benefits us. We live in a culture where we want it to be all about us. We want comfort and guarantees, but that's not how it feels when God calls us to something. 

That's why it's complete surrender and it's hard. Every day we throw up our hands and surrender - "God your will be done. What is it that you want me to do today?" 

I have had to press pause on a lot of my plans to slow down and refocus on God, and his plans. We'll get there, but it will be on God's time, not me rushing to it. And if we don't get there, then that's okay too. 

I am reading a book right now on complete surrender. I don't want to halfway surrender to God. I want to live a life fully surrendered to God and his will. Hopefully this encourages you to check your level of surrender and move closer to complete surrender.

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Love,
Danielle
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