Surrendering to God means giving up my attempts to shape my life and identity according to my desires.
In solitude, we withdraw from the presence of other people to pray, read scripture, or simply be in God’s presence.
To experience God’s healing, we have to first acknowledge and accept our failures and wounds.
When we recognize our place in God’s universe, we no longer have to make ourselves the center. Freed from the pressure to make ourselves great, we can enjoy the wonders of God’s world.
We do not have sleepwalk through life. Jesus offers us the life we were made for!
Humans are constantly sizing one another up, figuring where we fall in the pecking order, and seeking to move up. Jesus, though models a different way—a way in which we give honor away rather than seeking it for ourselves.
Our worth comes from being made in God’s image and that Jesus shows the better way: humility, self-emptying, and pursuing excellence without needing to be above others.
Jesus’ sacrifice for our sake can be understood not only as his death, but also his life lived in perfect obedience. In his life and death, Jesus gave himself for our salvation.
We long to experience the kind of transformation we see in Jesus, but we find change rare and difficult. The Transfiguration is a promise of the transformation God works in us.
