Let Go, and Let God!
How many times have I heard that phrase before? Many! And yet I still struggle with actually “acting it out” in my daily life. Its so easy to push God to the side and say “Ok so I need to do this, and fix that, and take care of those”, while He’s off to the side where I placed him just waiting for me to say ” Hey God can you help me with this, I can’t do this by myself”. I’m not really sure why I seem to think that I can handle everything without Him, maybe its just my human nature, or maybe its arrogance, either way its what usually ends up happening. So this past week I’ve been in one of those…we’ll call it “arrogant times”. Meaning that I’ve been running around saying “Ok so I need to set up this appointment this day, and make these flyer’s this day, and call so-and-so this day, and have this much support raised by this date, and have made myself completely stressed out in the process. Then I started getting mad at God when the support wasn’t coming in, in the way or amount that I wanted it to. And God the whole time is still just waiting patiently for me to ask for His help. So like I said I’ve been in one of these “times” up until earlier this morning, after realizing that I wasn’t doing a very good job of “handling” everything. I asked God for His forgiveness for my sin and arrogance that I had used to push Him aside, as well as forgiveness for thinking that He “Wasn’t Big Enough” to handle my problems in life. God then proceeded to give me these passages in Psalms.
Psalms 32: 1-5
Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him
and in whose spirit is no deceit.
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,
and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
So because I kept silent to God about my worries and problems I tended to stress out and be exhausted all the time, but when I told Him everything and asked for His forgiveness He gave it!
Psalms 34: 17-19
The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears,
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the LORD delivers him out of them all.
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the LORD delivers him out of them all.
When I cried out to God, He heard me and will carry me through, because He IS Big Enough!
One other verse that God gave to me today when reading His word was one that I’ve heard many many times before, but have never really taken it as words that actually applied to myself.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
God already knows every little thing that is going to happen to me in life, so who am I to think that I can handle everything? I’ll tell you who, I’m a hopeless sinner….but God is a merciful God and loves me anyway! So I’m choosing this day to STOP thinking that I can do it all on my own, and instead I’m
Letting Go, and Letting GOD!
