Encouraging - Surrender

Surrender is not passivity or abdication. It is saying yes to God and life each day. It is accepting the gifts he has given me – my body, my mind, my biorhythms, my energy. It is letting go of my envy or desire for what he has given someone else. It is letting go of outcomes that in reality I cannot accept anyway. I surrender my ambitions, my dreams, my money, my relationships, my marital status, my time, and my desires to God. Surrender means I accept reality….Because I am a creature and not Creator, surrender is actually a better way to play the game. For I am not Master of the Board. Surrender opens me to God’s blessing.

John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI: 2007), 64-65.