Sweet Surrender

Surrender can sound like loss at first. Like giving up, giving in, or letting go. We say we want it and even think we have it, but often what we have is only the idea of surrender. The real thing takes time. It comes through a process we do not control.

True surrender is not about loosening our grip on life. It is about letting our will collapse into God’s will until there is no difference between the two. It is not passive, and it is not defeat. It is rest.

Surrender is not resignation; it is relief. It is when the tension between our will and His dissolves, and what is left is peace.

That peace does not depend on outcomes. It is not drained or detached, just quiet. The old need to arrange everything, to be understood, to protect or predict...it all begins to fade.

God does not take our fight away; He redirects it. The energy once spent resisting becomes energy for trust. That is the sweetness of surrender. It is not that everything works out, but that we no longer need it to.