rolling up cables and other stuff

hey friends! hope all is well. apparently this is my third entry of the month! and this entry goes to another darling friend of mine form youth.

i was talking to her the other day and out of much appreciated honesty she shared something i believe is worth thinking about-how do we actually surrender to God / what is it really like to completely lay our burdens down?


i bet over a million Christians blogged about this..so i'm just gonna write as God guides me and enables me to.

but first..a real-world illustration:


the other day after youth service, when it was time to pack up, i decided to help out with the cables. apparently this was something i've never done before and even if i did, it wouldn't have been a real long time ago. so i grabbed a long cable and tried to roll it up my way. ( you see, i'm no good with cables). then, a friend of mine, who has a whole lot more experience than i do in packing instruments and knows a whole lot more about cables, came up to me and
helped me to do it the right way. he even thought me what not to do and simply told me that what i was doing just now was silly (or something like that).



you see, if i were to disregard this friend of mine (the cable guy, i mean) and take things into my own hands, i would have messed the cables up and the guys and girls that needed to practice on the following day would have had a hard time unwinding the cables. 


the new oxford dictionary defines the term "surrender" as to stop fighting and admit that you have lost


you only truly surrender when you admit to the fact that you could not have done any better and things are beyond your ability to change. it's when you lay down your pride and know that there is nothing you can do or could have done to change things.   


am i making sense?


the first act of surrender in our salvation is when we know that there is nothing we can do to make ourselves presentable before God. we need to leave it to Jesus to take our place and cleanse us of our sins. 

for me surrendering to God is a result of acknowledging who He really is in our lives. this friend of mine has no idea how to truly surrender to God despite being told again and again to do so. it's all about admitting to defeat (in a positive way) and giving God rightful ownership over our lives.


so take over Lord, i know that things are beyond me in every way and that there is nothing i can do or say to change things. i trust that You are who You say You are and Your Word is true. i know that You have only Your greatest good for me in mind. i hereby laying my burdens down. take Your rightful place Lord. You are God above all and You are in complete control over my future, my past and apparently my present. amen.