God loves us." I've adopted it too, because in the jumbled mess of my heart and prayers, it simply makes sense. Plus, it's easy to remember when I'm overwhelmed! Unkie Dan has taught me many things in my life. The importance of love, honesty and forgiveness are among the top five. During this tragic ordeal, though, I learned what it looks like to completely surrender to God's will with vulnerability, dignity and trust.

Surrender Accepting what cannot be changed, relinquishing control of the uncontrollable, is crucial work. Struggling and straining to be free of the suffering, we risk being consumed by it.

February 13, 2020 - Who knows what lives we can impact by maintaining a godly attitude in the midst of severe anguish? Surrendering to God's plan for your death is submitting to the One who is the Alpha and Omega over your earthly life.

January 18, 2012 - Ultimately, God’s will for us is to glorify Him and to grow spiritually. He wants us to trust and depend on Him. How we react to our trials, including the trial of terminal illness, reveals exactly what our faith is like. Scripture teaches us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1). In fact, “dying to self” is a requirement for those who seek to follow Jesus Christ (Luke 14:27). This means we completely ...

September 1, 2023 - “Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life” (John 12:25). Submitting to God’s will leads to the life that we all long for, according to the promise of John 10:10.

March 23, 2023 - This means that no matter how bad things seem, you know God will not abandon you during your trials (Heb. 13:5), and He will always be with you, no matter what (Matt. 28:20). All you have to do is cry out for His help and strength, and He will ...

August 6, 2024 - At that moment, when God’s goodness ... to justify your sin. But don’t do it. I promise you, surrendering your will to God lies at the very core of whatever grieves you....

On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord. I will add 15 years to your life... " On the other hand, When David's son was sick, David prayed and fasted. His son died anyway. The point is, God is in charge. It is His call. He can (and does) overrule terminal diagnosis.

June 23, 2019 - Oswald Chambers, in his classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest, describes surrendering to God’s will this way: True surrender is not simply surrender of our external life but surrender of our will— and once that is done, surrender is complete. The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will.

September 30, 2025 - The race that terminally ill people are running — in bed they’re running — is not a race against wind or hills or heat or burning muscles; it’s a race against temptations that would make them doubt God’s goodness, God’s love. It’s a fight to stay restful and content in God through broken hips and cancer and lost sight and failed memory.

June 2, 2024 - Facing the agony of the cross, Jesus prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42, ESV). Jesus’ surrender wasn’t a passive resignation but a courageous and active yielding to God’s redemptive plan.

God doesn’t see my body as decaying. He is preparing me for Heaven. My body is being changed for good and when God sees me as ready, he will take me to be with him, forever. I know that I am more than my illness, I am a child of God and I am loved.

October 3, 2023 - After all, we “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). But when we surrender completely, release control of our lives, and submit to His will, we open ourselves up to the blessing of becoming all God created us to be in Him.

February 7, 2024 - Deny yourself; don’t think you know best. Instead, go to him—giving it all to him—to find rest and not be heavy weighted anymore. You can’t carry it all and don’t need to. You should surrender it all to God.

3 weeks ago - I trusted in God’s plan for my life, whatever that might be. I focused on the blessings I had, the love of my family and the strength of my faith. I surrendered completely to God, letting go of my fears and anxieties.

June 25, 2022 - Anyway, you miss out on gifts God has for you along the way. You cannot get His peace without it, among other things. But, in answer to your question, no. There is only one requirement for salvation and that's not it. ... Only the Divine Blood of Jesus can save us. But, in order to keep your salvation through Help, we have to surrender our will to Him.

October 1, 2025 - The picture of surrender is that once we were enemies and our lives were at odds with God. We did not submit to him. We were not surrendered to him. We were our own masters, doing our own will, robbing God of not only everything he’s given to us, but our souls as well.

January 31, 2025 - The AMD seeks to avoid this. From the point of view of the Christian faith, to opt against extraordinary life-sustaining measures in the face of imminent death is an act of surrendering ourselves to God.