Letting Go

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5

Letting go isn’t easy for some of us. I find myself moving on towards the empty nester as my youngest begins her last year of high school in the fall. It seems like my day are flying by so fast that I keep losing track of time. Yet, every one of us will experience some kind of letting go in this lifetime. We are made to let go of loved ones, good health, dreams, destiny, youthfulness, etc.

While we may mentally accept that letting go is a part of our lives, we struggle emotionally. Many times we struggle because we don’t want change and we don’t feel ready for the adjustment. Sometimes we struggle because we’re full of regret from what could’ve been if we had done things differently. We also may struggle because we cherish the memories and want to relive them as long as possible.

Whatever the reason for our struggle…we must eventually let go. We can’t move forward to the next journey that God has for us if we stubbornly dig our heels in protest. There’s one main reason you can let go: trusting in God.

Letting go is possible for those who’ve put their trust in God. If we can trust that God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, (whom we’ve never seen) so that we will experience eternal life (which we don’t have yet)—we can trust God in letting go.

The joy of trusting God is that we will one day be in a place where we will never have to let go of anyone or anything. Heaven is an active place of ongoing activity filled with joy, love, and peace. We can trust God now while we’re on this earth filled with sin, sorrow, and pain. He is worthy of our trust. The Lord will be with us on this journey of letting go if we would put our hand in His to lead us in the best direction. Letting go will never be the same.