Giving Up or Letting Go?

 

In many situations in life, our instinct is to fight it, fix it, and seize control. But very often, the Lord is asking us to do the opposite. He’s asking us to let go.

 Letting Go and surrender is completely counterintuitive. But that’s the nature of life lived God’s way. It runs against our natural instincts. But letting go isn’t the same as giving up.

 Giving up is when the rope is torn out of your bleeding hands. It’s something you allow to happen by a choice of your will.

 God never wants us to give up. But He does want us to let go.

 1. Letting go is an act of acceptance and surrender. It’s also part of life. To let go is to accept those things we cannot change. It doesn’t mean we approve of those things or even like them. But we release them nonetheless.

2. Letting go is an act of love, not defeat. It’s a deliberate decision to place our trust in Jesus Christ.

3. Letting go is the path to freedom. It also opens the door for God to gain what He’s after without interrupting, interfering with, or intercepting the masterpiece He’s seeking to create in you.

The fact is life is a series of losses. We lose friends, relationships, jobs, churches, family members, even our favorite stores, restaurants, games, and preferential subscriptions. The only thing that’s guaranteed is our earthly existence, and even that will be gone one day.

 As difficult as it is to let go, keep this in mind: You’re not really letting go. You’re simply transferring the problem into God’s hands - hands that are far more capable than your own.

 As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend,

I brought my broken dreams to God, because He was my friend.

But then, instead of leaving Him, in peace, to work alone,

I hung around and tried to help, with ways that were my own.

 At last I snatched them back and cried, “How can You be so slow?”

“My child,” He said, “What could I do? You never did let go.”

Will you?