Posts with the category “surrender-and-trust”

10/26/2026Fear has a way of showing up when we least expect it. Sometimes it comes through a phone call, a medical report, a financial concern, or a situation involving someone we love. Other times, i...  Read More

10/25/2026Have you ever been in a conversation where you were so focused on what you wanted to say that you barely heard what the other person was saying? Maybe you were already preparing your respons...  Read More

10/24/2026Have you ever walked outside early in the morning, before the noise of the day begins, and just looked around? Maybe you’ve watched the sun rise over the hills, stood beneath a sky filled wi...  Read More

10/23/2026Have you ever worked so hard to make something happen that you forgot to ask God whether it was supposed to happen in the first place? I think most of us have been there. We have an idea, de...  Read More

10/22/2026There are moments in life when walking away would be easier than staying. When relationships become complicated, circumstances change, or the future looks uncertain, we begin asking ourselve...  Read More

10/20/2026Have you ever done something for someone and wondered if it really mattered? Maybe you gave your time, helped someone through a difficult situation, offered encouragement when they needed it...  Read More

10/19/2026Have you ever found yourself secretly satisfied when someone who hurt you experiences a little trouble of their own? Maybe someone treated you unfairly, spread something about you that wasn’...  Read More

10/18/2026Have you ever had one of those days when you finally sit down at night and wonder where the day went? You were busy from the moment your feet hit the floor. There were responsibilities to ha...  Read More

10/26/2026Have you ever finished a good meal, pushed your plate away, and said, “I couldn’t eat another bite,” only to find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator a couple of hours later looki...  Read More

09/30/2026There are things I can trust God with pretty easily. Then there are the things I keep checking on—as if God might need my help making sure everything works out. Money can certainly be one of...  Read More

09/28/2026There are times when you can feel yourself running low. You’re still showing up. Still handling responsibilities. Still answering the phone, taking care of people, doing what needs to be don...  Read More

09/26/2026Some mornings the fight starts before your feet ever hit the floor.You wake up thinking about the conversation from yesterday. Something somebody said is still bothering you. You’re already ...  Read More

09/25/2026There are times when what we really need from God isn’t a different circumstance, a clearer answer, or even an easier road. We need the assurance that He is with us. Because when you know Go...  Read More

09/22/2026I wish I could tell you that I’ve reached a place in my life where I don’t care what people think about me. I haven’t. Criticism can still sting. Being misunderstood still bothers me. And th...  Read More

09/21/2026There are people in our lives whose word means something. If they tell you they’ll be there, you don’t wonder whether they’ll show up. If they make a promise, you can count on it. Unfortunat...  Read More

09/18/2026There are times when the biggest obstacle to hearing from God isn’t the noise around us. It’s the confidence within us. We can become so convinced that we know what we’re doing, what needs t...  Read More

09/16/2026Sometimes the hardest part of walking with God isn’t believing that He is able. It’s believing that He is close. We can know all the right things about God and still have moments when fear g...  Read More

09/12/2026There are days when you wake up already tired. Not just physically tired, although that can certainly be part of it, but tired from carrying things. A decision you haven’t figured out. Someo...  Read More

09/11/2026Sometimes loving people is inconvenient. It interrupts the schedule. It takes longer than we expected. It asks something from us when we already feel like we have plenty of our own stuff to ...  Read More

09/10/2026Some things in our lives don’t need a little adjustment. They need to be broken up. We can get comfortable with patterns, attitudes, habits, even ways of thinking that have been sitting unto...  Read More

09/07/2026There are things we can carry for so long that they start to feel normal. A fear we’ve learned to live with. A lie about ourselves we’ve repeated so many times we assume it must be true. A h...  Read More

09/06/2026I don’t know about you, but asking for help is not always my first instinct. My first instinct is usually to figure it out. Make the phone call. Work the problem. Come up with a plan. Fix wh...  Read More

09/05/2026There’s a big difference between knowing things about God and actually allowing what we know about God to shape the way we live. We can read Scripture, listen to sermons, sit in Bible studie...  Read More

09/04/2026Some things in life can be faked for a little while. We can fake patience through a meeting. We can act joyful when we’re irritated. We can smile at somebody while having an entirely differe...  Read More

09/03/2026There are days when life feels pretty manageable. Then there are days when you realize just how little you actually control. One phone call, one unexpected problem, one piece of news, and su...  Read More

09/02/2026There are days when our minds get ahead of us. We’re physically standing in Wednesday, but mentally we’re already living in Thursday, Friday, and three weeks from now. We start solving probl...  Read More

09/01/2026There are times when following Jesus feels like standing in front of a job that is bigger than the tools we have. We know the kind of person we want to be. We know there are attitudes that n...  Read More

09/01/2026There are times when following Jesus feels like standing in front of a job that is bigger than the tools we have. We know the kind of person we want to be. We know there are attitudes that n...  Read More

08/31/2026Some people make a difference loudly. Others do it so quietly that you may not recognize their impact until years later. A conversation. A prayer. An invitation. A word spoken at exactly the...  Read More

08/30/2026Sometimes we know exactly where we want life to go. We’ve thought it through, made the plan, prayed about it, and maybe even convinced ourselves we know what the next few months should look ...  Read More

08/27/2026There are days when the biggest battle isn’t around us, it’s where our mind keeps going. We can belong to Jesus, trust Him, love Him, and still find ourselves consumed with things that won’t...  Read More

08/24/2026There are parts of following Jesus that are easy to keep private. We can pray quietly. We can read our Bible alone. We can worship with our headphones on. But eventually, what God is doing i...  Read More

08/23/2026There are some things we can do halfway and still get by. We can half-listen to a conversation. We can half-clean the garage. We can even half-follow the directions and somehow get the furni...  Read More

08/22/2026Sometimes we picture God as distant, somewhere above all of this, watching from heaven while we try to make sense of life down here. John opens his Gospel by telling us something completely ...  Read More

08/21/2026There are things we spend years accumulating that can disappear almost overnight. Money can be lost. Possessions wear out. Homes need repairs. Careers change. Even the things we carefully pr...  Read More

08/19/2026There are a lot of things people can know about us. They can know where we work, what church we attend, what we believe politically, what team we cheer for, even what we post online. But Jes...  Read More

08/17/2026Sometimes the hardest part of following Jesus isn’t believing the big things. It’s living out our faith in the small moments, with the person who gets on our nerves, the family member who kn...  Read More

08/16/2026Some days faith feels strong. Other days, faith looks like doing the next right thing while your heart is hurting. You pray, you keep showing up, you keep trusting God, and yet nothing aroun...  Read More

08/15/2026There are times when waiting on God feels harder than doing something. We can handle a task. We can make a phone call. We can work a problem. But waiting? Waiting requires us to trust God wh...  Read More

08/14/2026There are days when following Jesus feels peaceful and steady. Then there are days when it feels like you walked straight into a fight you didn’t know was coming. Paul doesn’t pretend those ...  Read More