Journey with Della

We each have some things or some people in our lives that we care about so much so that we can’t let them out of our sight for any amount of time. We are afraid something may go wrong the moment we let them out of our sight and so we cling all the more tighter to them. It’s just the right thing to do right? Prove to them that you care by being there always and taking care of them even before thinking about your own self. Right? I am sure that I will appreciate it if someone were to care that much about me and do that much for me.

In God’s sight, that principle does not work. You see the problem is that those same things or people we care very deeply about have the capacity to become distractions from God’s perfect plan for us. It is very easy to replace God in our hearts and lives with either the things or the people that we care about the most. That is why God asked Abraham to give Isaac back to him. Each time I read that story, I always wonder what thought s crossed Abraham’s mind as he listened to God request the very son that he had blessed him with.

‘There must be some mistake God’, he may have reasoned.
‘Remember what you said about Isaac? how you said through him my descendants will become as numerous as the sands on the sea shore and the stars in the sky? I think you need to rethink this request of yours’. I can only imagine what he must have thought since the Bible does not tell us anything about it. Did he wrestle with God over the issue? You know how we always want to be sure that the devil is not masquerading as an angel of light and getting us confused? Did he bind and cast any demonic spirit on assignment to abort his destiny?

Come to think about it, what went through his mind did not really matter as much as his response to his creator. He willingly gave him up. He gave him back to God believing that since he came from God, he deserved to be returned to God. And then you know the rest of the story.

The truth is that we do not know as much about handling that thing or that person as we think we do. We live in a false sense of self adequacy that has us thinking that we know what to do with our kids, spouses, gifts, talents, time, etc. God is saying, ‘I know better’. If we return that thing or that person back to God, he will do a better job at keeping it and caring for it than we ever could. He is faithful and able to keep that which has been entrusted to him and so you and I will be better off if we just let go and let God.

So what is it that you are still holding on to? Do you even know that you are clinging to that thing too tightly? Is it worth it clinging that tightly unto something or someone that you are not even able to keep? God can only preserve and keep until that day that which has been entrusted to him. Letting it go is proof that you truly love and care about it. Letting him/her go is proof that you truly care about them. And beyond just letting those things go, you are turning your very self over to God. In the process, although it may seem that you are losing something, the truth is that you and that thing are just leaving a very insecure neighborhood where thieves and robbers and rust and moth and so many other dangerous things can have free access to you, into a much safer neighborhood where none of those dangers can ever reach you. 🙂

You don’t want the worry and the anxiety that comes with clinging to those things or people that you care so deeply about. So just let go. Let go and see if you won’t sleep better at night.

Do you truly care? Then let go!!!