There is a price we pay for everything. Commodities have a visible price attached to them but there is a price we pay for our choices in life. The consequences for some choices may be immediate while some haunt us for life. Mostly the price we pay in such cases are recurring and painful. A harmonious relationship makes life enriching, but a contentious relationship wearies us. The underlying factor in all of this is our stiving to have control and we commit and surrender to wrong things in life.
In our desire to control every outcome, we try to steer our lives down a meticulously planned path. I’m a planner. I like to know when something is going to happen and what it’s going to look like. On the contrary a life of faith works on uncertainty. God rarely gives us a map and a timeline. I would even dare to say, God does not work in certainty. When I strive to control my outcomes, I end in disappointment. Surrendering is not accepting defeat but the humble belief that God holds the blueprint for our lives. We try to be self-styled gods by making things work for us through our abundant resources and opportunities. This deceives us into thinking that we neither need help from others or the need to commit and surrender to God.
The best description of surrender is when Jesus framed the top two commandments i.e. to love the Lord God with all their heart, mind, soul and strength and then to love their neighbors as themselves. Surrendering in Jesus’ term is to love the Lord and people unconditionally. When love for God is unconditional then you are automatically prepared to love one another like yourself. The purpose of life is to know God and to love Him and love others as Jesus’ commanded. When you hold on to something that is not part of God’s will and refuse to surrender, then you pay the price. The core of such rebellion and defiance is a moral decline. They may be holding on to something which they cherish, and value more than God and they fail to realize it is sin. They may miserably fail in all that they do yet be unwilling to commit their life to God.
For God’s blueprint of your life to be revealed, our surrendering and committing is crucial. We need to receive forgiveness from our sins, which we can find only in Christ and be a transformed person. In the realm of faith, surrender does not equate to weakness; rather, it signifies a profound strength found in trusting God’s love and plans for us. Scripture offers abundant clarity and guidance on this - “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Surrender involves relinquishing our need for control and placing our lives confidently in God’s hands, knowing He has our best interest at heart.
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