72 🪶 ---- Surrender Is the Doorway

 

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Surrender Is the Doorway

Kids,

If learning to hear Jesus for yourself is the foundation…

Then surrender is the doorway.

I used to think progress with God meant striving harder.

Trying harder.

Fixing more.

Defending more.

Understanding more.

But the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized something surprising.

The biggest movements of God in my life didn’t come when I pushed.

They came when I let go.

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There’s a difference between effort and surrender.

Effort says:

“I will figure this out.”

Surrender says:

“I trust You to lead.”

Effort tightens.

Surrender softens.

And strangely, it is the softening that brings strength.

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There was a season in my life when the Lord showed me my own faults very clearly.

Not to shame me.

Not to crush me.

But to invite me.

I saw things in myself I hadn’t wanted to see.

And instead of defending myself…

I released them.

I didn’t wrestle to win.

I aligned.

I let Him take what I had been carrying.

And what followed was not punishment.

It was peace.

Real repentance is not humiliation.

It is relief.

It is the moment you stop pretending.

It is the moment you say,

“Take it. I don’t want to carry this anymore.”

And He does.

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We live in a world that praises control.

Control your image.

Control your future.

Control your narrative.

But the gospel — the real gospel — is different.

It invites surrender.

“Not my will, but thine, be done.” — Luke 22:42

That is not weakness.

That is alignment with heaven.

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I don’t know what battles you will face.

I don’t know what questions you will wrestle with.

But I do know this:

If you hold on tightly to your pride, your fear, your need to be right…

you will feel exhausted.

If you release those things to Him…

you will feel lighter.

Surrender does not make you smaller.

It makes you freer.

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The miracle was never the spectacle.

It was always the yielding.

When you yield, light finds you.

When you yield, clarity comes.

When you yield, peace settles in places that argument never could reach.

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If you ever feel stuck…

Try surrender before strategy.

Try stillness before reaction.

Try humility before explanation.

The doorway is low.

You have to bow to enter.

But on the other side of that doorway…

there is rest.

Love,

grandpa

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