1593 Help Me Drop It

Have you ever given up on something in the past and just wish you would have kept going? Where would you be today if you wouldn’t have given up? Oh dang! Healthier, stronger, further along perhaps?

It’s easy to imagine how life could be if we would have stuck with the things we gave up on, but today, I want you to imagine how your future life could be if you would give up some specific things today.

Yes, give up.

I mean let go of. Move on from. Surrender.

For many of us, we’re holding on to something that is no longer serving us. We’re dwelling on something that has held us back. We’re carrying something that is exhausting us. And in order to move forward to the life God has available for us, we must let it go. Drop it. Move on. Surrender your right to carry it into this next season of your life.

Something I’ve learned is just because you have the right, doesn’t make it right. You have the right to still be hurt over what happened in the past, but does that make it right? Really, does it change anything for you to still carry around this hurt? Does it make it better?

You have the right to be frustrated and angry, but honey if it’s not helping you it’s hurting you. You may be stuck in indecision today because you still don’t understand WHY what happened happened, so the question becomes, how much longer will you hold on to your incessant need to know as another day passes you by? A day of opportunity is here … will you miss it because you’re stuck in something that’s already happened?

Let it go.

You likely imagined by this point in your life, things would look a certain way. And the majority of us are here looking back with a few questions. Hmmmmm, why did it all work out the way it did? You didn’t imagine this loss. You didn’t imagine this hardship. You didn’t imagine this setback. You didn’t imagine this struggle, no, not this one. And yet you’re walking right through it. Gosh, I can’t believe this is happening to me … not at this point in my life. How can I be here?

You can deny it, but what good does that do? Let’s face the truth … some of our reality is a bit hard to swallow. Things happened you didn’t see coming. Other things didn’t happen that you had really counted on.

I have a smaller inner circle of 9 people from across the country. 3 out of 9 of us lost a parent over the last few years. 7 out of 9 of us are struggling with a wayward child. 2 out of 9 lost their spouses. 1 out of 9 of my inner circle lost her life. Every single one of us love Jesus, and every single one of us prayed these exact situations wouldn’t happen.

Where’s God in all of this? Where is he when you’re struggling to understand why and why not? Answer, he is here, with you.

God says in Isaiah 41:10 “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”

Why would God need to tell us not to be afraid and discouraged if there weren’t very specific life circumstances coming our way that would make us FEEL afraid and discouraged? God wouldn’t need to strengthen and help us if there were never a struggle. He would have no need to hold us up if we weren’t first being pulled down.

This is an opportunity for you to lean into God and receive from him all you need. But make no mistake, this is also an opportunity for you to run from God, convinced he doesn’t really care for you … and guess who ...