Recently God has been super clear to me needing to let go. I often find myself trying to take control of situations and make things happen the way I see them needing to happen. Consequently, this makes me take my trust off the Lord. There has been a situation in my life recently that I felt like I had it all under control when one day the Lord made it super clear that I needed to give it up to Him and let it go completely totally out of my hands and put it in the Lords.
Sacrifice.
The current situation, which I know I’m being really vague, feels like I’m living out the story of Abraham and Isaac. You know, the one where God tells Abraham to go up to the altar and sacrifice Isaac…knowing very well that even if God didn’t tell Abraham to stop before stabbing Isaac with the dagger, could resurrect Isaac from the dead. But in my situation God didn’t tell me to stop before piercing this very thing I need to let go (or rather, sacrifice) I feel like the stabbing has been done and now it’s just a matter of having faith and trusting the Lord that resurrection and goodness will be brought out of this letting go.
We read in Hebrews 11 about the great “Hall of Faith”
By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did…
By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death…
By faith Noah…built an ark to save his family….
By faith Abraham …obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going…
I see these ways that Lord has been working in my life over the past few years:
By faith Allie went to live in Colombia to be a missionary teacher…
By faith Allie left Colombia, even though she felt at home in that country and loves it and the people with her whole heart…
By faith Allie went back to the states not knowing what would happen those 6 months….eventually seeing God’s faithfulness….
By faith Allie left her family to go on the World Race and travel Latin America for 11 months
and now:
By faith Allie is letting go of the one thing she thought she was sure of about her future and is trusting that the Lord will be glorified in it and GOOD will reap from it.
What about you? Have you thought of what your story would be like if you were in the Hall of Faith?
By faith _______ quit their job even though it was the only thing providing the money…
By faith _______ left their home to be a missionary in a different country leaving family behind…
By faith _______ let go of a friendship/relationship because it wasn’t glorifying God…
Oceans by Hillsong has been the song of my heart this whole year and I’ve constantly been repeating the verse:
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior
Trust without borders….a place deeper…faith be made stronger.
I can see the Lord putting me in situations where my trust IS having to be without borders which is making my faith stronger. It’s hard. It hurts. But the end result will be SO WORTH IT!
What’s holding you back? It’s a hard prayer but I encourage you to ask the Lord on what areas of your life you’re holding onto too tightly. As he reveals them to you let go of them however he tells you to and walk in OBEDIENCE. I don’t know what the future holds and what the end result of my situation will be but my hope is in Christ and I know the end result will be GOOD.
You. Will. Not. Regret. It.
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