Let It Go! / Mrs Alicemarie Johnon

 

Mrs Alicemarie Johnson

Pastor's Wife

River Lake Baptist Church

Waverly, TN

 



 

Let it Go!

Let it go!!!  I know, I know; now some of you have that song in your head!  No, that is not what I am referring to here today!  We often hold on to things that we should not; things that will hold us back in life.  Often, our circumstances can become difficult, and we struggle to understand.  Perhaps someone has hurt us, and we want to become angry and bitter.  Perhaps an illness or a financial problem has loomed large in your life.  I have really struggled with some of this myself lately.  I have felt hurt, anger, disillusionment; but I also know that these things are poison to the victorious life God wants me to have.

Let it go—hurt, anger, bitterness.  “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you with all malice.”  Ephesians 4:31.  When we hold a grudge, we only harm ourselves.  Anger is an acid that eats away at our joy.  Bitterness binds us in chains; our freedom is to let it go! 

Let it go—frustration with the things that come in our lives out of our control.  I have questioned “Why?” in my life many times; then God reminds me in Proverbs 3:5 & 6, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.”  When I let go of my own reasoning, and trust God and His will, then I can have peace in my struggles.   It is hard to trust, but when I do, God gives strength and peace to keep enduring.  

I know so many of us are going through difficult times.  Hold fast to the promises God gives us in His Word.  Hold fast to Romans 6:28: “And we know all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”  

Has someone hurt you?  Let it go!  God will handle the situation.