Of late, God has blessed me with the grace to surrender a lot of things. For the longest time "give it to Him" seemed so abstract. What did it mean? Well, I think I might have a working definition now: giving up ones ownership and responsibility of the thing and its outcomes and trusting in God's power and goodness (it tends to be in better hands that way).
Relationships and fencing have so far been the biggest venues for trust and surrender, but I'm realizing now that there are other things, stuff we might not usually think of when we think of surrendering.
Maybe this is different for others, but school has always been sort of an individual endeavor. I would always do the reading and work and occasionally pray for help on a paper or test and give thanks for good results. However, Erika recently showed me a verse that was pointed directly at my (so far merited) apprehension about taking Calculus II and Physics: 1 John 2:27
"And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you, but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him"
There is a temptation to be rather Platonic, thinking that God and His word applies primarily to the spiritual, almost to the exclusion of the everyday. But doesn't "all things" include the stuff you study in school?
So what else in life occurs outside the sphere of His ownership and recognition?
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