Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

Pull every dream that you’ve ever had from all of the places that you’ve abandoned them, brush them off, set them in front of yourself, run the fingers of your heart over each of them, fight the lie that you’re not enough to achieve them, and realize that the dream was not too big. Rather, the belief in yourself is too small.

If we’re saying ‘no’ to God, have we considered what we’re saying ‘yes’ to?

More often than not, it’s not that we don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that we don’t want to.

In my efforts to flee God, I will always end up some place where’s He’s at because I’ve never left where He was.

Do we not understand that the absence of God is the presence of evil? And if we think ourselves so shrewd as to be able to ‘by-pass’ this reality, we have handed ourselves a ‘free-pass’ to our own destruction.

To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me.