Retreat means to draw back, to leave or withdraw. Surrender means to give up, admit defeat or lay down your arms. Which of these two are the best weapons we can use to live a victorious life? You can retreat but not surrender. You can surrender and be defeated forever, but also on the other hand be forever peaceful and feels like a champion.
“Retreat” it's just a step of obedience away? I'm not saying it could not be a failure in another sense. It could be both a channel of victory and failure. When you learn how to use this thing works out, it's really a great weapon for victory. You become sharper than your first hit. But it's a choice of the one facing the battle though. While in the process of retreat, you can think of the best strategies how to get through even beyond those obstacles you see in front of you. How can you get wisdom and knowledge to get there enough ready for the wildest battle you'll be facing if you have not taken the most important thing? Indeed it's better to retreat than to fail in the battle and lost the lives of the people you are fighting for including yourself. But again, it depends how you spend it, where did you spend it, who will take the lead and who gets the glory.
On another hand, surrender could be a victory. It could be the most painful and hardest thing to accept. When surrender takes place a part you get into the most shameful feeling, especially when people around you got these high expectations or you expected that it's going to turn out well as you expected them too. But, again that depends on the person. If Defeat is the right thing to do so, to make a way for those best blessings, best relationship, abundant and victorious life. WHY NOT? Anyway it's not all about the pain…it's all about having a wonderful life of service ahead together with your love ones, work and the Salvation of those around you.
When I told my family and closest friends that I will resign as a Project Director of a child sponsorship program, because I feel strongly that I need to take myself into a wider horizon of work they said, “You're crazy!” they asked me “So you give up? You work hard for this for five years, and besides you're making a difference among these children?” “I said, yes I believe you, and I know that it's hard for all of us.” “But I have to back off while someone is ready to take the lead I must give him a way.” “It's the last weapon I could ever use to preserve the legacy and pass on the passion for the next generation of leaders, to take their place and to bring all these into fulfillment. Indeed, there are young men and women out there who are just ready and are called to be leaders and I believe they can do better than what I did. And if I'll push or keep myself of doing it, it could hurt all of us and would hinder all the best blessings we could ever have for the rest of our lives. “I knew exactly that my job is to make a way for those who are called, to be able to cross the dried sea.”
To conclude, “Retreat and Surrender” are not usually bad they could be a hint for victory to bring yourself and others into their highest peak of fulfillment and keep the leagacy.
