Featured Article – Let Go and Let God
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This is quite a popular phrase said by many Christians today.
I’ve used it quite a lot myself. It’s used to mean surrendering
our lives totally to God and letting Him shape them. It’s used
when we’re faced with difficult situations that we just can’t
handle on our own. We’re supposed to give our troubles to God
for He can handle everything. Didn’t He make the heavens and
the earth (Gen 1).
But how easy is it to really Let Go and Let God? Sometimes it
depends on the situation. Why can’t we let go sometimes. After
all if we didn’t need God’s help, we wouldn’t have any problems
in the first place.
Recently, I was dealing with a situation that was quite troubling
to me. I knew that I could give it over to God and he would
take care of it. I knew it because God has never failed me in
the past and never will. Although I prayed for God’s help, I
kept clinging on to the thoughts of the situation.
The thoughts were eating away at me. They were preventing me
from getting on with other more important things. Did I show
a lack of faith in God? Did I not trust Him enough?
God has certainly earned our trust by all the miracles He’s
performed and by all the promises in His word. But why couldn’t
I completely surrender? Sometimes we give it over to God then
try to tell him how to fix the problem, like we know better
than He does.
Or we get impatient because the resolution doesn’t happen as
quickly as we think it should. So although we claim to have
Let Go, we haven’t. We worry, we pray over and over just in
case God didn’t hear us the previous times. We bargain with God.
We keep thinking about the problem.
This type of behaviour only steals our joy and disturbs our
peace. It really does prevent us from being the best we can be.
This is not what God wants for us.
Yes, God came through once again as I knew he would. God is
so faithful and yet I had such little faith. It can be no
other reason. I can never gain the lost time back that was
spent worrying.
And neither can you. Don’t waste your precious time worrying
about the outcome of a situation that you’ve Let Go and given
to God. Find a deterrent, go out and have some fun, read a
good book, focus of happier times.
I pray that God will help all of us to trust Him more and to
strengthen our confidence in Him. Ps 56:3 But when I am afraid,
I will put my confidence in you. Yes, I will trust the promises
of God. Remember if God says he can handle it he really can, so
Let Go and Let God.
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