Knowing Him Daily

13.April.2026

Your deeper yes is not a single moment of dramatic surrender. It is a posture and a position you grow into, one choice at a time, one act of obedience at a time, often without knowing what is waiting on the other side.

Jesus in Gethsemane said not My will but Yours be done, Luke 22:42, and that surrender was real and it was costly. But His circumstance was unique. He knew what was coming. He could see the cross from the garden. Most of us do not get that kind of preview. We are simply asked to say yes to something that feels unfamiliar, uncomfortable, or even frightening, with no guarantee of what we will find on the other side.

That is where Ananias comes in.

He was not an apostle. He was not a famous figure in Scripture. He was simply a disciple in Damascus living his life when God showed up and gave him an assignment that made no human sense. Go find the man named Saul. Lay hands on him. Restore his sight. Ananias knew exactly who Saul was, the man who had been hunting down and persecuting believers. And he said so. Lord, I have heard about this man. Acts 9:13. But when God confirmed the instruction, Ananias went. He said the deeper yes when everything in him had reason to say no.

He had no idea he was about to restore the sight of the man who would write most of the New Testament. He just obeyed.

Terri Savelle Foy says it beautifully, somebody in need is waiting on the other side of your obedience. Let that settle in for a moment. Your yes is never just about you. There is always someone on the other side of it who needs what you are carrying, what you have lived through, what He has deposited in you, and what only your particular obedience can deliver to them.

Romans 12:1 calls us to present ourselves as a living sacrifice, our reasonable act of worship. And Psalm 40:8 takes it even further, I delight to do Your will O my God. That is the journey. From enduring His will, to offering yourself to it, to actually delighting in it. That progression does not happen overnight. It is the fruit of a life spent saying yes, again and again, in small things and large ones, in the familiar and the frightening.

The deeper yes is not defeat. It is the most intimate party It is the most intimate part of you that can offer Him, your will laid down at the feet of Someone you trust completely.

And somebody is already waiting for you to get there.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.