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“Letting Go & Letting God”
1 Peter 5:7
NIV- Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
NLT- Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
No matter how hard I try to submit and surrender myself to God each day, I find myself taking over shortly after and starting to worry about life all day long. Why do I find it so hard to let go and let God be in total control? So many days, I find myself worried and having concerns about so many things. I watch my wife and girls work through various things in their lives and I try to think about how I can be a better husband and father.
Aside from thinking about them, I often think of all the things I need to take care of and accomplish. While I’m only given one day at a time, I find myself worrying about things days ahead and even weeks or months.
When I get to the point where I can fully focus on God and all His provisions and remember that I need to just let go, I finally feel at peace. I come to a place where I realize I cannot control things and I cannot figure everything out. Why am I always trying to be in control of so much and figure things out?
Friends, do you find yourselves struggling with these things I struggle with daily? Are you finding yourselves filled with anxiety and stress and worry almost all day, every day? So many of us in various ways.
We must make it a point to go to God and submit and surrender to Him and allow Him lead us and take these burdens from us. It’s hard to let go and let God be in control because so often we feel we need to be in control. Cast all your anxiety on Him. Give all your worries to Him. I like both translations here and they are great at giving a different perspective on this passage.
Letting go and letting God is hard to do! It is not an easy task because we so often want to take care of things in our own way. We get overwhelmed and stressed and wonder why things aren’t better. God wants us to give these worries and concerns to Him as He promises to lead us and give us peace. He cares for us and wants the best for our lives.
We need to practice so much more of letting go and letting God!
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