Conversations with the Father
“Let go!…..Just let go!”
“But I can’t!….Don’t you see? I need to hold on to this. It is personal. It is special. I need to hold on.”
“If you don’t let go, I can’t fix it. It will forever remain broken.”
How many times have we had this conversation with God? How many things have we held onto with a fierce “bulldog” grip, refusing to turn loose. If we lose our grip, we may not have any control on the outcome…..(note to self…we don’t have control anyway).
My conversation with God that morning was somewhat like this. Mine, however, included lots of tears, and quite a bit of desperation in my voice as I pleaded with Him to “fix them” without a great deal of turmoil. I didn’t want them to suffer, just be fixed. Be freed. Free from old habits, bad attitudes, hang-ups, anything and everything that is keeping them from Him! Then the thought struck me…..what do I need to be freed from? What do I need to “let go of” in my own heart and life?
I know we all have things that readily come to mind, but seldom do we want to “go there”. If we just keep those things tamped down, then we will be okay. If we just don’t think about it….much….but the enemy keeps shoving it in our faces. So there we are again….feeling positively weighted down by all the stuff we have “held onto for dear life”. Our life certainly doesn’t feel very “dear”. More like “drear”…..but He still says, “Child if you will just let go, I will fix it.”
So, we loosen our grip. He purposefully will not pry our fingers loose, it must be our own choosing. So we loosen up a bit more. Finally we can “hand it over”. Finally He has something He can work with. Then His peace…..remember peace?…..it washes over us and we feel….calm. Now that’s a feeling we can live with.
All too often we forget that it’s already ours….just by asking….He freely gives. When I have a conversation with God, I sometimes “forget” to listen. Sometimes I do all the talking. And then there are those times when I cannot for the life of me “speak”. I weep. The Holy Spirit does the interceding. God knows. He speaks to our hearts and souls in ways that is difficult to describe to a non-believer. That’s where faith and trust come in.
1 Peter 5:6-7 “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
In our conversation with the Father, if we will give Him the problem….then let Him give the answer. Let us not try and give Him the problem with the solution we’ve already worked out in our head….hmmm, do you do that too? His ways are not our ways.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9
Father, we praise Your name…for You are so able to handle any situation that may come into our lives! There is nothing You can’t do! When we don’t know how or what to pray…I pray that the Holy Spirit would interecede for us. I trust You with my all. I ask that You would enable us to be the vessels You desire us to be…for Your glory…for the furtherance of Your Kingdom—and we will forever praise Your name~Amen.
Trusting Him,
Angie
Amen to this.
It IS really tough to let go and let God and yet, it’s very necessary. It and they are not ours to hold in the first place. We are to cast our care not hoard it.
Praying the prayer with you, my dear friend. Very powerful and oh do I pray it from the bottom of my heart – He CAN fix anything or anyone, if we let go.
Thank you for sharing these powerful words.
Blessings on your weekend and always.
Angie,
Neat post. The scripture from Isaiah is precious to me. Love you, Lynn
Thanks for sharing this post Angie. I’ve had many of those conversations with the father. I love that scripture from Isaiah also.
Amen, I love it when you said “He purposefully will not pry our fingers loose, it must be our own choosing.” It took me awhile to learn that…heck I still think I am learning that. Blessings.
This is tough. It is not so tough as to let go in the beginning, but oh, when He does not seem to answer right away, especially if it is not for a very, very long time, now that is tough. I’m still struggling with that.