When We Surrender Ourselves To Him

These moments. These days. These years.

They go by so fast.

I think back to my childhood, and it feels like yesterday.

It had to have been just yesterday I was playing with my sisters outside, with our fingers full of chalk and our hearts filled with laughter and love.

I remember when I was young, everything felt like it was going to be okay. I had my routines with my sisters, we did school and played, and I had all I ever needed in my life: God and my family. 

My biggest concerns and worries were my broken barbies, and scraped knees from falling off of my bike.

But those concerns didn’t last long, as I knew I could lean on my parents to save me. Save me from those problems that felt so big, yet looking back, they were so so small.

I used to think that as an adult, my life had changed drastically in the way that I now have real life problems and concerns. I now have things to actually worry about. I now have hardships and trials, and things that genuinely affect my career and my life.

But then something clicked with me recently.

Nothing has changed, friends. Our trials and concerns as adults may be 20x bigger than how they were when we were children, but we don’t have to deal with those trials on our own.

We have a Father who created us. We have a Father that is by our sides through every single hardship and trial this life throws at us. We have a Father who wants us to surrender ourselves to Him. We have a Father who loves us more unconditionally than any human being possibly ever could.

We leaned on our parents as children, but now it’s time to surrender ourselves and lean on Him. 

There’s a bible verse that really spoke to me as I came to this realization: Isaiah 41:10

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”