{"id":15,"date":"2016-05-09T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-08-22T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:18:33","slug":"surrender-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/09\/surrender-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrender 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: #262626;\">\u201cSurrendering your will to God lies at the very core of whatever grieves you today.\u201d \u2013 Wayne Stiles<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I copied this quote a while back. I\u2019ve come back to it from time to time- not quite ready to move on. It\u2019s haunting me, dogging me, taunting me, pushing me, stretching me, teaching me.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>How does that work?<\/p>\n<p>Am I galvanized in the grief of a lost relationship? Holding on? To what? What once was, but is not now? Or to what I thought once was?<\/p>\n<p>But what never\u00a0<em>actually<\/em>\u00a0was?<\/p>\n<p>Or was it simply for a season and I\u2019m reluctant to let go?<\/p>\n<p>How does that connect to the surrender of my will, which, by the way, I\u2019ve done over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it a once and done?<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t it be?<\/p>\n<p>Ahh\u2026 evidently not for me.<\/p>\n<p>Because I keep grabbing it back in selfish ignorance and then in those moments of lucid vision (light bulb moment) I gingerly give it back to God like it\u2019s a live wire I want nothing to do with anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t I learned? Shouldn\u2019t I have learned by now? \u00a0Shouldn\u2019t we all have learned?<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that learning to surrender completely (meaning it\u2019s finished when you\u2019ve surrendered), is a process. We give up, give in. Easily. Readily.\u00a0 Then we reach out with our grubby hands and hold on for all we are worth. Because we keep forgetting that surrender is freedom and life.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Alone.<\/p>\n<p>How do you get on with surrender? Is it important to you? Difficult or easy?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the exchange between Jeremiah and King Zedekiah and the fulfillment of prophecy from the Lord \u00a0in\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jeremiah 37-39:6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I SURRENDER ALL.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSurrendering your will to God lies at the very core of whatever grieves you today.\u201d \u2013 Wayne Stiles I copied this quote a while back. I\u2019ve come back to it from time to time- not quite ready to move on. It\u2019s haunting me, dogging me, taunting me, pushing me, stretching me, teaching me. What? How &#8230; <a title=\"Surrender 2016\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/09\/surrender-2016\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Surrender 2016\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,7,8],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-faith","tag-obedience","tag-surrender","tag-wayne-stiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}