Accepting Where You're At // Surrender The JourneySample

A Different Kind of Rescue—and the Cost

Sometimes it’s in the night where you struggle to find me. Other times it’s in the morning, when you rise and don’t know how you will get through the day. What you need to know is that I will never not rescue you—from your circumstances, your struggles, your fears. But this is important for you to know: this rescue isn’t always what you think it is going to look like. Rescue, saving you, is what I have already done, you see.

I have already rescued you from yourself. I have already rescued you from your sin. My Son was the cost. There is no other debt to pay—the debt of rescue, the debt of failure, of falling, of pride, of disbelief—that He did not take care of with His death. With the death of my Son, your sin was washed clean. So you are clean, my son, my daughter. I do not see your sin any longer. Jesus took it all upon himself. It is done. It is done. Can this be what is defined as rescue? 

But in these particular circumstances you now face, you ask for a different kind of rescue. In this struggle, this fear, you ask for me to come, you ask where I am, you ask how I can help. For you don’t know how. You don’t know how.

So, let’s start with me asking how you want rescue to look? How do you envision it? How do you want everything to be fixed? How would you like the problem to go away? I know you have an idea, a dream. Now surrender that, son. Surrender that, daughter. 

Consider the hope you have, the outcome you are holding onto, and give it to me. Let your pleas be a surrender. Let your prayers be a listening to my voice after you have shared with me your deepest fears. For I do not leave you. And with me there is always hope, always  joy, always a way to persevere in the face of darkness. 

There is no fear where I am. Stay close. Surrender every fear, every worry. Give me the outcomes, and then listen.

Listen.

Now, in the surrender, you are ready for that different kind of rescue to begin. Again, it will not be what you think.

Exercise:

God’s plans are bigger and better than anything we could ever devise. So, how do we begin to look for, and allow for, His rescue, rather than to attempt our own?

Are you done yet plotting on your own? Trying to figure out life, all by yourself?

How do we begin to trust that our Savior is our Savior--in all ways, in all circumstances.

How do we begin to trust that God’s good plans are indeed good, and that they are indeed sufficient? How do we begin to trust that He even has good plans for us, plans drawn specifically for each one of us?

Ask God to help you clear away all your expectations. Ask Him to help you to trust in His presence, his sufficiency now.

Ask Him to show you His overwhelming goodness and outrageous love . . . for you, personally.

Ask Him to help you trust His plans, instead of your own.

Ask Him to help you trust the massive things He is already doing in your life, whether you can see them or not..

Ask Him to help you see His rescue--which is long underway.

And then just be watchful and curious over the next few hours, days, weeks, and months.

He will show you what He’s doing in your life.