Everyone Says To Do It, But No One Says How.

Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. 1Peter 5:7  NLT

Everything that sounds good, religious and pious is not for everyone. Teach it, don't preach it.

In just about every negative situation, or something that has happened with adverse events, we are instructed to ‘Let Go and Let God.’

What many fail to realize is, though the person uttering this phrase to you probably has your very best interests at heart, this is hardly what one wants to hear. People love to spout this expression. Thinking it’s something your can just snap your fingers and do. I can imagine this is difficult for most everyone, from the control freak type person to the most peaceful, go along to get along type.

For some, it’s hard letting go of just about everything in all honesty. How many of us have trouble

simply cleaning out a closet? You know chances are you’ll never wear that again. Somehow on the hanger it mysteriously shrunk. Or those shoes are no longer in vogue and probably no longer fit your feet. Removing the belongings of someone you loved and has gone on to be with the Lord is extremely difficult. Or those old towels that are practically thread bare. Or that favorite cracked bowl(ouch). That car we keep pouring more and more cash into, to avoid making car payments. All material things, but what of the relationship that no longer serves either of you, so you play the waiting game to see who’s going to leave first, somehow thinking you’ll be able to play victim and you view that as a better look, then just getting over it and letting go. We humans hate to let things go. We become pack rats or the ugly word, popularized on TV, "Hoarders," in our desire to cling to what no longer serves us, thinking one day we may need that broken toaster again. We’re stuck! Hanging on to hang on.

Keeping all that in mind, I NEVER tell anyone to let go and let God. I will pray, that when I see someone in one of the afore scenarios, that they are led to do so. I pray in my life to let go of whatever is no longer beneficial to me. But to tell someone to do that, when you don’t know how that will be received is wrong. Many of us don’t know how to just let go. I mean literally how’s it done? But I do know it’s a process and we all have to have a revelation or an epiphany that we must move on from whatever. But to tell someone to do it and you cannot explain how exactly to go about it is trite and unhelpful. Empty words that don’t help anyone feel better and probably worse, because they can’t seem to pull it off.

So again, if someone you know really needs to let God take it from there, pray they’ll see that’s what needs to be done, the inner resolve to do it, and patience with themselves as they try. Don’t add to their burden. Lovingly pray them through it.

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