Here's some stuff I've been learning while living in the small taste of community in GA
Surrender:
Verb – give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
Verb – relinqush possession or control over
The crazy thing about surrender in my life is often times I’m not in the realization that I’m claiming control over something. I don’t think to surrender because I feel I have nothing to surrender. But when I stop to think about surrender and really take a look at how I live, things start to surface. They seem little at first, almost unnoticeable, but grow with time.
When I was sick I said “I don’t understand what’s going on” out of frustration, I felt I needed to figure out how I
got sick and what kind of sick I was. Robby told me, “You don’t need to understand everything.”
At first this kind of offended me, but since he said it I’ve seen situations where that feeling of “needing to understand” comes up more and more. Now I’m realizing that I don’t need to operate that way and often times my need to understand gets in the way of being relational with people, and especially with God, I get this image of me stopping his love for me like at a checkpoint on the road to the deepest parts of me to inspect and understand the mystery of his love.
This is the wrong way to go about life, for the best things in life aren’t meant to be understood, but accepted.
I wish I had more to add to this right now. I like complete stories, but this not yet complete.
