The Active Work of Surrender

Yesterday's post can be easily misunderstood. Surrender can be understood as a passive act, one of waiting, one of letting something happen to me. But the type of surrender I speak of is something active, something engaging, something of work. It isn't a passive waiting; it is an active opening and receiving.

How many times have you done something special for someone, and they didn't say thank you because they didn't notice your kind deed? In the spiritual world, it happens countless times. Our work is to notice, to be on that spiritual wavelength to see it, to live on that plane.

Surrender prepares us for that depth. I used to think of surrender as something of "giving up". But it is more. It is accepting the hard things in life because we believe God will bring good from it. It is accepting a prayer not answered, knowing God does hear us, just maybe not give us what we think we need at this time. It is learning to understand someone else's point of view because we realize we don't always have the answer, we are not always right. It means accepting when we would rather be giving; waiting when we would rather be doing; sitting in silence when we would rather be shouting from the rooftops.

Surrender to God, and he will do all thing for you says a scripture verse. And the greatest thing is a new sight to see into the spiritual realm, where we recognize the wonderful things God is doing for us, and we lift up our hands in gratitude and praise.