This is actually an entry I wrote two Novembers ago. Yesterday was one of those days when throwing my hands up and surrendering was all I could do…Timely. I found the verse mentioned in the post exactly what I needed to hear…Job 11 13-15… 

So today I’m starting by surrendering it all to Him. But this time, it will be before my day begins💜 I shall not fear.

Do you ever feel like surrendering? And I mean that in the negative way…surrendering. Giving up. Throwing it all to the wind while screaming at the very wind that takes it away…or maybe crawling into a dark corner while tears flood your eyes and your heart pounds while your mind scurries about searching for every last ounce of courage, compassion, strength and forgiveness? When you are drained closer to the last drop than you have ever been before? When life has a bigger stronghold on you than the faith you claim to possess? Certainly, when at the bottom we can only look up, right? Sure. When I find myself struggling as I am right now with this, it’s the only thing I can do, is to look up, and then down searching for my soul again in a Book full of verses, chapters, and stories…somehow I am always able to pull myself out of that “funk” if you will, by searching for a verse to bend my thinking, reroute my approach, to soften my heart full of doubt and anger, to humble myself. To put my fear in check and leave it at the same door I let it in…as I walk through this day today, I’m telling myself over and over, I surrender…but not in defeat. I’m surrendering. I’m handing it over the One above…I found Job 11 verses13-15. “Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to Him, you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and without fear.” So in action, by prayer, by surrendering my sins to him whether it be thoughts, actions, words against myself or others, whatever sin may be, I can let go of my guilt and shame related to those sins by surrendering them to Him. I can cast away those fears. I can pray, I can choose to have Faith…and in those actions alone, I can stand confident and fearless and unashamed. I can stand confident in His ability to work it all out for my good…thank you Lord for my trials, my mountains, my struggles. Sometimes so hard to be thankful for those moments in life that seem to break us, but if it wasn’t for those moments, I know I wouldn’t be who I am in Christ today…going to go give Grace a hug now….I will squeeze it extra tight for those who know where I’m coming from, squeeze it again for those who don’t, and once again just because.

Give Grace. 

Give Grace A Hug❤️