The Deep Waters of Surrender

Giving up control is like letting out fishing line into deep waters where opportunities, you never dreamed of, swim below the surface.

The longer I live, the surer I am of this truth:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways?And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8-9 

Yet, although I think I understand this truth, I typically fish around for God’s will close to the shore:

Where I feel safe
Where the risks of loss seem fewer because the water is shallow
Where I can wade out and dislodge my disappointment when the hook gets stuck between a rock and a hard place

Even though I often live otherwise, I truly believe that the good Lord calls us to cast our lines out into deep waters:

Where uncertainty churns up frothy whitecaps of fear
Where we can’t see what waits for us below the surface
Where our plans just might drown in the waters of His wisdom
Where we might hook an opportunity so big that we won’t know what to do with it

Yes, God’s unexpected purposes for our lives often chomp on the hook in those scary, deep waters. When we stop trying to figure it all out, but just trust Him to design a future for us that is far better, although different, than we imagined it would be.

Casting into deep waters of surrender takes courage and a belief in your gut that even in your brightest moments, His ways are not your ways, or His thoughts your thoughts. It takes releasing all you hold dear and all you think you can control, so His plans for you can come about.

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