Trusting in The Father

"The only escape from self-love is self-surrender." - E.E

"Whoever loses his life for Me will find it" -Matt. 16:25
"As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete." -John 15:9-11


We are in a constant position to learn how the Father loves. When I have resisted him, I have cheated myself and whenever I have surrendered I have found joy. Our battle is knowing that He will meet all our needs and knows FAR better. Of course, most of us have the knowledge that He is "sovereign" (or supreme) God, but yielding to what that means becomes a different story. It means every desire, every deadline, every missed something, every rejection, every door opened is all about accepting His promising and perfect will. His desires for us becoming ours --at every destroyed hope for ourselves TRUSTING that a most greater joy will be revealed to us. I read this really awesome quote that again re-iterates why we aren't always stuck with what we think we should have or our desires are suddenly thwarted: "Heaven is not here, its there. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His invisible kingdom, where we certainly find what we so keenly long for."

A Quiet Heart

"Lord, give to me a quiet heart

That does not ask to understand,

but confident steps forward in

The darkness guided by Thy hand.”- Elisabeth Elliot

We live day to day with questions upon questions. I pray that I can “be still” and patiently wait for the answers. I am and will continue to be in the process of learning how to have a quiet heart. He does not work on anyone’s time schedule but his own—let me trust that I will never understand His ways fully, but that I am being led (and am willfully going) by a most sovereign God who works all things out for my ultimate good and his ultimate glory.