Surrender

Surrender. It's a weird concept, right? Even weirder when I tell you that surrender is what has gotten me freedom. Well, it has. When I asked God to teach me surrender, or do the work in me, he did. It started out slow, like being content with things how they were, then it got drastic, like being okay and voluntarily waking up to do quiet time. The work God has done in the area of surrender so recently amazes me. First he taught me about his love for me, now he's walking me through surrender and setting me free in the process. I have done nothing. Not one thing. I just asked God to do the work in me and was receptive to the idea of it. He's done work. And continues to. I was reading a book called SexGod (because I still struggle with the idea of sex and how it could ever be something God meant to glorify himself in) and a quote came up in it that hit me hard. It said "Freedom isn't being able to have whatever we crave. It is going without whatever we crave and being fine with it." It is so true... The word "lust" in broken down in Greek literally means "in the mind". God used the quote from the book to show me how many things I lust after that hold me in slavery. He has set me free for the sake of freedom. He set me free to be freed from lust. From anything that plagues my mind and makes me "crave". I'm being set free right now. It's going to be another process, but I feel more freedom with each day. I crave less and feel joy and contentment more.