Surrender Season Series: Pt 10 Three Questions in the midst of Surrender

Have you ever felt deeply disappointed to the point of tears, despair and confusion?

Have you ever felt these emotions and decided that you had no more energy for the thing that you might have been so eagerly looking forward to?

There’s another side to disappointment that is closely aligned to a sense of renewal. Especially as we transfer the hope we might have had, into a greater hope – that of strength from the Lord.

In Isaiah 40:31, we get to appreciate this a little better. However, it is in our humanness that we sometimes miss the value of the experience of surrender and the opportunity for renewed faith, renewed contentment, renewed vision and the opportunity for renewed perspectives.

Recently, I had an interesting experience which allowed me to look at disappointment as an opportunity for renewal. And because I also felt the sense to ask three questions in that moment, I was able to feel not only a renewed purpose and mission, but also a change of direction that allowed me to decide that there was an entirely different direction that the Lord had in store for everyone involved.

THREE QUESTIONS:

1) What is God asking me/us to be aware of?

2) How is God protecting me/us from an unexpected event?

3) Where does God want me/us to focus our time in this circumstance?

And, as I moved into a state of surrender and made the situation less about me and those involved and all about what God wanted us to be in tune with, there was an immediate sense of renewal, a totally unexpected calm and an even greater direction.

And all we did, was take a moment to ask three questions in the midst of a moment of true surrender.

Are you ready to surrender?

Nicole Joseph-Chin is the author of Ready to Surrender – “A pocketbook of peace, power and purpose”