Journey into Lightl

I am sure you have heard the statement, “Let go and let God.” It sounds wise and something we should strive to do. However, do you really want to do this?

We have many good reasons to not let go and to let God. We have inherited a nature and have been trained in not letting God get his hands on our life. Yes, I am talking about us Christians.

We have done pretty well for ourselves running our own life. In many areas we have become quite skilled at muscling God out of our lives and doing it our way. In fact, we have made it a lifelong habit of making things happen our way and in our time. It works! Why change?

Or has it worked?

Has it worked if we have reduced our faith down to following biblical principles that we can do in our own strength? Has it work if we have created a watered down Christianity to avoid letting God take us on a supernatural journey? Has it work if we have missed a journey of living an exciting and godly life that makes a lasting impact on this world.

Most of us have relied on ourselves to control our world for a long time. We like it this way. It feeds our pride. We feel safe most of the time. Yet, God wants us to let go of control and let him control our lives for our good.

I think often failure after failure can help us to let go of our control. This has certainly been true in my life. Only then will many of us become like children and allow our heavenly Father to help us.

Letting go and letting God can only happen as we rid ourselves of lifelong beliefs that support our controlling behavior. One belief is that that we know best what to do and how to do it. This needs to be replaced with God knows best and will lead us to live this best (Proverbs 3:5-6).

Mere exhortation to let God have his way with us is not going to cut it. Mere will power to do this right thing will not overcome the deep inertia we have to changing. No, we need to invite the Spirit to transform us. He needs to make children out of us. We can no longer be proud adults to let go and let God.

So, I challenge you to let go and let God help you with a challenge you have today. Ask him to help you identify what that challenge is. Then ask him to help you with that challenge. What happened? Please let me know.