Nothing is more uncomfortable then sitting in the passage seat of a car, whist that car hurdles towards the rear end of another car. We all have been there, instinctively your hands shoot forward, partly because the humanity in you is bracing for impact and partly because your mind is saying “Swerve! Swerve! Grab the wheel and turn this thing!” Along with this reaction you naturally begin to slam your feet to the floorboard in hopes that the break peddle magically switched over to your side of the floor. As humans, it is imbedded in our control system to have a wantonness to take control of a situation; especially when that situation is both out of control and involves our own wellbeing. The same is true in our spiritual lives, many of us have, or are having, a serious case of “back seat driver” or in this analogy it would be “passage seat driver”. So the question now becomes:
How do we let go?
Drawing from my own experience (because it’s the only one I can speak authoritatively on) I offer this point of view (take it or leave it…………I understand if you decide to leave itJ).
When a person arrives at a point where the strength of the conviction is more powerful than the fear that holds you back; when the unction from God is so profound that the future of one’s spiritual experience hinges on it, i.e. if a person does not act or move according to the will of God he becomes a hypocrite, because he is now blatantly disobedient. You can conclude that, although: fear, doubt and uncertainty are there; it is irrelevant to the decision, because God’s will is now the only thing that is relevant. In short, I believe, that a man or women truly “let’s go” when they come to the point where they believe that God’s will is better for them than anything they could drum up for themselves; and then they act and move in that faith. This expression of acting and moving “in faith” could manifest itself in many different ways, it could be: cutting ties with that man or women that is holding you back, visiting a prison yard even though you feel unprepared and/or ill qualified, stepping out and testifying to that friend, loved one or co-worker, starting a song that might be “a train wreck” but you feel God has those words for someone in the house, the list goes on and on and the manifestation of belief and faith can/could be great or small.
When you truly believe that God’s will is more perfect for you than your own then you truly “let go” ALL decisions are subject to his will and therefore ALL glorying is yielded to him, and if you truly believe God’s will is a “must” in your life, then all fear, doubt and worrying is irrelevant. For truly the question still stands today: “Where is your faith?” (See Psalms 118:8)
What I been thinking on this week is: Have we really let go? If so, is it manifested in our lives? If we have “let go”, how can we help others to?
That’s what I have been thinking on, what have you been thinking on? What do you think about this business of “letting go”?
My verse for the week:
“Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” -Nehemiah 8:10
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