Surrender

I don't have a fitting picture for this post. In fact, I wasn't planning on posting but something has jumped out at me so I have to pass it along. I attended a ladies luncheon Saturday afternoon and we all took a personality test of sorts. (It was no big shock that I fell into the Romantics category.) I'm against applying psychology to the Bible but this was not that and it was actually helpful. Since I already know quite a lot about my own personality =) I was paying more attention to the other categories. I was suddenly (and I mean out of the blue, noman's land) teary-eyed as I listened... The person with a Questioning personality tends to be fearful but the opposite spectrum of that flaw is a virtue: faith! The speaker said, "A Questioner, though fearful themselves, admires courage in others and because he/she has experienced deep fear, knows the value of complete surrender." It was the word surrender that did me in.

Steve and I taught the 4th & 5th grade class at church Saturday night and our lesson was on believing Jesus is God. After I got home, I started to prepare my post for Sunday (I don't actually write the post on Sundays because it's my day of rest). I popped over to Love Worth Finding and the message there was about the Lordship of Jesus. Just what we taught the kids in class. Then it asked, "Are you an independant person?" Got me thinking back to those personality tests. Then this: We often speak of commitment, but the real question is surrender. When you're committed, you're in control; when you surrender, you relinquish control.

It's humbling to admit this but most everyday I don't know what I'm going to write here in this little blog. I very rarely have a plan or a specific topic. But when things fall into place, like they did Saturday, I know it's exactly what God wants me to write. So, I don't have a lovely photo today, but I'm certain that God has put the Love Worth Finding message in our path today specifically for one of you. Please go read the message and see if it's for you.