Surrender!

Now I am going to describe a day in my life that is no different from a day in your life. We all face issues as we work our way through a 24 hour period of time. sometimes it's our health, sometimes the old bank balance, sometimes our family or in particular one person in the family. That one person can change from time to time or become more than one person, especially if you are like me, an elder of the household or in more friendly terms - a grandmama!

I had a grandmama day last week, my grandson who is now 24 and autistic struggles everyday with simply trying to live independently in this abrasive non understanding world. Stuff you and I would just 'do' - to him it is more like an army manoeuvre. He becomes frustrated with us constantly offering advice and we become frustrated with him because the answer is soooooo obvious - to us anyway!

After three long conversations during that day he was no further forward and I felt useless, helpless and completely whacked as I tried to give him both reason and hope, wrapped up in armfuls of love.
I climbed the stairs to my quiet place where I generally meet with Jesus, usually when I am desperate! Tears rolling down my cheeks, questions filling my aching heart and head  'why don't you intervene Lord? He trusts You implicitly, where are You?  What can we do from so far away? Why is he so stubborn?' It seemed like there was a sigh, a sob and a deeper mystery with every step. I arrived by my bedside and with arms hanging limp by my side and my knees giving way under me I cried out  -  'Lord, I don't know what to say to You, what do I ask for, would You hear me anyway?
I fell to my knees, silenced in the sorrow, dumbfounded by the mountain before me. In the agony of that moment I felt His arms wrap around me and He whispered an affirmation that astounded me.

'You don't need to say anything, just fall at My feet'

I knew in an instant He had it in hand, He knew the right words to say and these words were already being laid in as many tears by Him as He was interceding for my dear grandson and for also for me.

After a while I came downstairs encompassed in a peace that could only come from Him. I went to the piano to play something and my hymn book flopped open on the hymn 'The Battle Belongs To the Lord' based on Ephesians 6:10-13. Please read it, I just melted in love and gratitude for the powerful truths contained in those words.

What I want to encourage you with this time dear reader is that we need to FALL AT HIS FEET. Take our eyes off all distractions, all confusion, all pain, all darkness, all failures, all notions and ideas, all the words of well meaning men, all of our own words and simply FALL AT HIS FEET.

Daniel did it, David did it, the leper did it as he approached Jesus in his helpless state and many other s throughout scripture, when they got to the point where the next step was not visible and not even possible, then it was time to acknowledge Him in awesome silence and worship.

Here's the promise -  2 Cor. 2:14-15 'But (regardless of what has gone before) thanks be to God, who ALWAYS leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in EVERY place. For we are the fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing'.

We are not useless or helpless without hope.

Just to know Him more, to focus on Him and let everything else go in the face of a great and loving God.

Whatever it is in your life, dear one, FALL AT HIS FEET  - He knows it all.