Let it Go

The Disney blockbuster movie, “Frozen”, is coming out on DVD Tuesday.  The big song from the movie is called “Let it Go”.  It won the Academy Award this year for Best Original Song.  It is a great song but it can get stuck in your head.  My girls have been belting it out all through the house.  They sing it so often, now I have been singing it too. If someone’s fighting over toys, I just sing, “Let it go, let it goooo!”

In case you haven’t heard it, the chorus of the song goes like this:

Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore

Let it go, let it go

Since this song has been in my head (earworm!) and just about everywhere you turn today, it got me thinking…  Let it go… What have I been holding onto so tightly that I am reluctant or unwilling to let it go and give it to God?  I have some areas in my life that I can say I fully let go of the situation and gave them to God.  But there are also some things; I just can’t seem to pry my fingers off of.

When I was single, I had reached the point when the string of bad dates, blind dates, and set ups were bringing me down.  I was lonely.  I was tired of friends introducing me to people.  New in my faith, God opened my eyes and helped me to see I needed to let it go and let Him take care of it. After I let go of my grasp, I met Donald.  From our very first email, I completely trusted God with our relationship and I still do to this day, almost nine years of marriage later!

When it was taking longer for me to get pregnant with my first daughter than either I or my husband had anticipated, I was frustrated.  I read books, researched, tried this suggestion and that.  I wasn’t getting pregnant and I was starting to fear that maybe, kids were not a part of our future.  When I heard a message delivered by guest speaker, Rev. Peter DeArruda, at West Ridge about how God is in control, I knew exactly what I needed to do.  I had to let go of my quest to get pregnant and give it to God.  A few weeks after I entrusted God with the desire of my heart, to be a mom, I got pregnant!

I have areas of my life that I know I need to do a better job of letting them go and giving them to God.  I believe we all can agree we have things in our lives that we want God to change but we aren’t quite ready to let them go.  My challenge to you today is to release those issues, those problems, those areas of your life that you are clutching to ever so tightly. 

Why are we clinging to these issues so hard anyway?  Are we afraid that if we lose our grip on them that they would spiral out of control? If they do, who better to be in charge than God?  His ways are not our ways!  God is for us and oh how He loves us!

So my prayer for today for you and me is that all those areas we are trying to control, keeping for ourselves, holding on to, that we would let them go.  God is in control.  Let it go and give it to Him!

“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)