Written by John Ortberg, a contemporary pastor, author, and speaker. This is an excerpt from his book “The Me I Want to Be.”
Surrender is not the same thing as passivity. God’s will for your life involves exercising creativity, making choices, and taking initiative. Surrender does not mean being a doormat. It does not mean you accept circumstances fatalistically. Often it means you will have to fight to challenge the status quo. It doesn’t mean that you stop using your mind, stop asking questions, or stop thinking critically. Instead, surrender is the glad and voluntary acknowledgment that there is a God, and it is not you. His purposes are wiser and better than your desires. Jesus does not come to rearrange the outside of your life the way you want. He comes to rearrange the inside of your life the way God wants.
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. [Psalm 90:10]
