Surrender

I have not been able post lately due to some things I needed to get done for our Winter retreat. Hopefully I will be more consistant in the future. God has been teaching me a lot lately about surrender. The past several months I have been really praying over what God wants to do in and through my story in life. I know that God created me for more than what I am doing now, but I have been struggling to find what that is. The past few weeks however I feel I have begun to see more clearly what God wants to do and the key was surrender. I struggled with surrender because I always put boundries in my mind. For instance I would surrender my will to God, but wanted Him to use me in a location I determined was his will. What I discovered was that surrender has no conditions, and I am taken completely captive by Jesus. Jesus can take me as a captive anywhere and at anytime for anything he chooses. I am His, even if I think I know where he is going, as my captor, He can chnage that at any time without notice or my permission. So I am surrendered to Jesus and will lose eveything for His sake and will decrease so the He might increase.