Learning to Surrender

The journey I'm presently on is one of learning what total surrender to the Lord is and having to trust Him at every turn. Surrender is a word most people dislike, or simply don't fully understand. Webster describes surrender as, "giving control to someone else." As a Christian I choose to surrender my life to God, allowing Him to use me as His servant. That means allowing His desires to be accomplished through me. Unfortunately, it's very easy to do what we want to do and how we want to do it. Personally, I think it's easy to say that our life is surrendered to the Lord, but in reality, the way we live it out may not line up with what we say. I think it's easy to say, "I want this or that. Or I want to go there or do this." But have you ever wondered if what you want is actually what God wants? I'm now frequently asking the question, "God, what do you want today?" If I don't, before you know it, I could be way off course. God's will must become my will. What He desires must become my desire. What He wants me to do must be what I choose to do (and with the right attitude). A life of true surrender isn't doing what I want or what seems good, it's doing what He wants. Why is surrender so difficult for some people? Because it means moving from the driver's seat into the passenger's seat. What I'm learning on my journey is that there's no place I'd rather be than in the passenger's seat, with God in the driver's seat :)