Letting go doesn’t mean you are giving up on or abandoning that person or situation. Letting go doesn’t mean you don’t love or care for them/it any longer. We can no longer cling to something or someone who doesn’t bring us peace. The most loving thing we can do is to fully and truly let go. Truly and fully hand it over to the Lord. Place it/them in the hands of the only one who can actually heal! That’s truly the most loving move!
Sometimes we get so caught up wanting, loving or desiring something or someone so bad that it blinds us. It becomes an idol. We cling on so tightly we can’t see anything else. We can’t see what we truly need, what God really has for us. Isn’t what God has for us much better than what this world has to offer and what our flesh is currently desiring? Why do I want or desire something that everyone else desires? Something that the world is also after! When I think about it in this way, I realize how carnal it is, and it makes me not want it! Isn’t this world naturally apposed to and rebellious to the things of God? So, if people of this world chase it… then we must wonder, consider and discern if God is in it before we go after it as well.
“The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow” RC Sproul.
Let go of what God is rejecting in your life, hand it over to Him! He doesn’t need you in order to fix or handle something. He is God almighty, the ultimate healer and creator of all things. Stop trying to “help God out.” There is no need to grieve it as a loss, if God was never in it. He has something better on the other end of your surrender and obedience!
Now the Lord said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king” –1 Samuel 16:1
Why are we continuing to mourn what God has rejected? I encourage you to Go! Leave it/them behind, let go! He already has something else selected for us. Be encouraged that the ending of something, is also the beginning of something new!
