I think surrender gets at the heart of what God is after as we wrestle with him.  Today Perry and Shawna press in more to what it looks like to wrestle with God and what happens in us through the wrestling.  First Perry shares how achievement has been his drug of choice to deal with his shame.  But as God has wrestled with him, emptying him of pride, he’s learning to achieve because he’s loved, rather than achieve to get God’s love.  BIG difference.  Next, one of our listeners, Jody, shares about wrestling with God through cancer and how Jesus used that dark place to bring her to a place of complete surrender.   Then on the lighter side we share about some scuffles we had as kids that thankfully didn’t scar us for life!  Finally Shawna shares about two friends who were blindsided by life—One who lost a fiancé in war and the other who’s not yet had the daughter she longs to have.  When life doesn’t go the way we plan, it can thrust us into a wrestling match with God.  And there are only three choices that we have when we wrestle in this way:  We can run from God.  We can complain (it’s OK to do this when you’re wrestling).  Or we can trust that God is who he says he is and that he’s got us in the palm of his hand.

Encouragement for you to take the next step in your journey with Jesus.