Letting Go!

Letting Go!

I heard a very wise young preacher preach a message on this topic at our associational camp meeting this week. Rev. Drew Lynch hit the nail on the head with this one. So often we go through life holding on to what we think are necessities yet if we would just let go we would receive power from on high! We hold on to numerous things, physical things, emotional things, and spiritual things! All of which are holding us back. This wise young preacher in boldness simply said "there's POWER in letting go!" To which I agree. So often we hold on to family, jobs, money, cars, homes, etc. As if God can't or won't give it back! Do we not realize that when He typically asks us to let go of something it's so we can latch on to something greater! He spoke on "iniquities that are frustrating!" A lot of times we can't forgive ourselves or other's that have done wrong! Forgiving ourselves seems to be the hardest thing to ever do! If God forgave you and forgot what you did, why can't you? So often we hold on to "injustices that are frightening!" Someone does us dirty and we just can't forgive, or we say we forgive yet remember what they did and allow that remembrance to change how we feel or act toward them! "I forgive them Pastor" yet you avoid them at all cost. That's not forgiveness that's holding on and not letting go! We see other's going along fine while living like Hell itself and we are struggling trying to live right and we begin to question God! Oh me! Like God said to Job, "where were you when I hung the stars?" Do you want to be happy? Do you want Joy? Do you want peace? LET GO! In a dark moment Moses' mama simply let him go. The most prized possession she ever had! God directed the current, God positioned the rescue, and God gave her something greater! She was paid to raise he own son! Just let go and let God! Thanks Preacher Drew for the message, I sure needed it!

Exodus 2:1-9King James Version (KJV)

2 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.

Job 38:1-4King James Version (KJV)

38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.