St. Peter Lutheran Church
and School

With that he told her she needed to be showered and ready to go in one hour. When she asked where they were going he said,"Trust me." She actually got a little upset when he refused to tell her his plans. He took her out to breakfast at a little inn where they had a room all to themselves. A corsage was waiting on the table for her. After that they stopped at her favorite clothes shop where he had an outfit picked out. She just needed to pick out the accessories. She asked what such an elegant outfit was for. He refused to tell her. She started to protest, but he did not budge. As the day went on, with a walk in the park and a lunch for her and two old school friends whom he had flown in, she relaxed and let him lead her through the mnost wonderful birthday she had ever experienced.

Because we often view "surrender" in a negative sense, people miss the beauty of what it means to be a Christian. Faith in God is not a choice we make in which we include God in our routine of life. It is a gift from God. Neither is the Christian life like a buffet where we pick anc choose what we like. Rather, being a Christian is to have the Lord of all creation take us out and surprise us with a life we could never dream of or make happen on our own. The question is this, "Do you trust God?"