There is a difference between giving up and surrendering.
BIG difference.
Giving up is all about me. If I give up, I have thrown in the towel. I can’t do it anymore and that is the end of it.
Surrender involves a partnership. Surrender means that I acknowledge there is something else out there to help me once I let go of my old ways.
God.
That doesn’t mean I have no part in it anymore. It means that I have surrendered control and now my action plan to move forward has an invisible motor—power beyond myself that will lift and carry me through my own actions.
I saw a poster once in a meeting hanging on the wall. It is of a man in a boat rowing all by himself. Water leaks into the boat from holes in the bottom making it look like he will sink. Above his head reads:
Trust in God. Below the boat it reads: And, still row to shore.
We are partners now. With God’s help and my own action steps,
I can do this life sober—not giving up, but surrendering.
Sweet surrender...
Power.
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.” Proverbs 3:6
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