What does it really mean to surrender every dream and every single part of your whole life to God?

For much of my life, I thought this kind of surrender meant that God would tell me to do something I didn’t want to do; then I would be stuck in a miserable existence, forcing myself to be obedient to Him day after day but wishing I had chosen another path.

My perception of God was so wrong. How could I have ever believed that my loving Father who created me would ever want anything less than His best for my life? My only answer is that I felt I was smart enough to do things on my own. It’s funny how we always try to make ourselves believe that we are in complete control of all situations when, in actuality, there are very few things we have any control over at all.

It is a scary thing to make the decision to turn your life over completely to God if you don’t already know something about His Character. His dreams for you are much better than any you have ever had, but you will never understand Him with head knowledge only. You must read the Bible and let its words soak into your heart to change your way of thinking.

If you have come to the conclusion that you don’t have everything under control and can’t make things right no matter how hard you try, give up your own way of doing things and give God the steering wheel. He will meet you exactly where you are at this moment and start to direct your ways.

Once you start to see His Character, you will find that you can fully surrender every area of your life to Him and know that He is leading you in the right direction.

Total surrender is just being obedient to the leadership of the Holy Spirit (God living inside the Christian.) You don’t need to have all the answers when God already knows them.

John 16: 13-14

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall  he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

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You might think you can run away from what God wants you to do for awhile, but in the end you will wish you hadn’t. Most of us tend to think that our way is much better or that we will be more fulfilled going in a different direction than the one God has given us.

God thinks in terms of “very best” for what He wants to accomplish with your life. You will never feel more fulfilled than when you are exactly in the center of His Will. So why fight Him at all when He tells you what to do. I have learned from personal experience that He can change your whole attitude about what you are to do when you just surrender your own plans and let Him take the lead.

In fact, the thing you thought you didn’t want to do will become something that you couldn’t imagine yourself not doing and you are so proud that you didn’t miss the opportunity.

If you know God is telling you to do something, don’t fight Him any longer. Step out on faith and find out how awesome He is and how great it feels to go to sleep each night knowing that what you accomplished for the day was totally in the center of His Will and was pleasing to Him.

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Since I have surrendered to God, it feels like my life has been something like the picture above. It has been a remarkable ride in every way. God always astounds me with the direction in which He leads. I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out the way He will end up doing something or answering a prayer.

It truly has been the ride of my life, and like the tracks around the tree above, I can’t begin to imagine how God has worked some things out. When I looked back, there was just no logical way for it to have happened.

I will never be able to see what the future holds, but God doesn’t have a problem in that area. He knows exactly where you and I will be 5, 10, even 20 years down the road. He also knows the plans He has for each of His Children.

We like to feel in control of our lives, so we try to make decisions based on facts that we already know or directions we want to go. It also makes us feel more comfortable if we think we are doing the driving. That way we can at least have the illusion that we know exactly where we are headed.

It is not an easy thing to completely surrender your life to God when you cannot clearly see what is ahead. You decide to walk forward with Him when you don’t know exactly where you are going. Sometimes He just takes you one step at a time and you don’t have a clue what the end result will be. Sometimes you do know what the end result will be, but you must discipline yourself to walk at His pace so that you don’t try to make it happen yourself.

God wants His Children to know His Character; then they will know that they can trust Him with everything in their life. He has things totally figured out, and all He wants is for you to be obedient to what He says.

Spend time reading the Bible each day, and ask the Holy Spirit to show you the CHARACTER of God.

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I found this graphic on the Campus Crusade for Christ International site.

How many times have we all represented the first picture. We try to do things our own way and leave God out. Then things have to start to unravel before we recognize that we are trying to take things upon ourselves instead of letting God be on the throne.

Look how clean and organized the second picture looks. This can be a true representation of our life when we put Christ in the place He needs to be. When He is on the throne, others will be able to see the difference in us. We will have a peace and joy that can get us through even the toughest times.

You have the choice. Yield to Christ and give Him total control to order and direct you so that you can have the best possible life.

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