Surrender - 20 March, 2007

Surrender

Wow...now that’s a hard nine letter word. Maybe there are so many letters because it takes so long to do it!!

The Lord has been dealing with me to surrender my doubts, fears, inadequacies to him. To be free in his presence.

Have you ever had a dream that was so precious to you that you hold it close, you nurture it, you grow it, and you protect it? Then there comes a time when everyone else starts noticing the potential of that dream…and they like it to. You gently hand it over to them to look at it. They take it with trembling hands and pass it carefully to each other. Commenting on it, some questioning it. You stand at full attention.

What if they don’t like it as much as I do? What if they don’t see it’s potential? What if they don’t see how vital and needed it is?

Then the answer comes. They like your dream, your vision, and agree that it is needed. Wow, you think. God your must have planted that in my head. It must have been your dream and your vision.

But then there is the time of hesitation. The time, the space that is the waiting for it to come to pass.

That is the time when the widow waited as Elijah laid upon her son and breathed.

You see she had been faithful; she had followed the call of the Lord. She had built the room for the prophet, and because of this she was blessed with food and supplies for her and her son. Her dream. She protected it, carried it close to her heart, she gingerly hugged it.

Then one day- it appeared as though her dream would be taken away from her. But the prophet appeared again. He was the one who had aided in the past. As he lay upon her dead son, and breathed life into him…that must have been the longest seconds in her life.

Had she just imagined this blessing? Was it there only for a season? Maybe she miss-understood the Lord? Was this really her destiny? Was she to carry on?

And then a tiny cough was heard echoing in the room.

Yes, there was life! Her destiny was only resting, and now had sprung back to life.


There are times when we have done all that we can do.
When we have gone down the path the Lord has laid out before us.
The direction has been cast
But there is a pause……
In that pause do we question or vision?
Do we think…oh maybe I misheard the Voice of the Lord?

Or do we rest in the knowledge that he works everything out in his time?
Just when we turn it back to him…there is a tiny cough and our dream has sprung to life.

I can only imagine that great party of victory that was in that house today.

What about you? Are there some things that the Lord placed in your heart? Things that are so close to you ..you dare not even mention them? He has not forgotten them? He will bring it to pass.

This pause, this space, this waiting period…is a time for fully trusting him. This hesitation is when he is showing that HE has it all under control.

Just think of the rejoicing, the happiness that will flood through the very core of you when you see it fulfilled!! Hold on to your dream! He that has started is able to finish, complete, that great work in you!!