01.27.09
Letting Go
What keeps you from just letting go? What are you holding onto that keeps you from making a leap of faith? When I used to teach swimming, in order for a kid to truly learn to swim, they had to let go of the side and go out into the deep water. There comes a time when we experience a chasm that cannot be crossed by just easing across. We can’t just ease ourselves across. Coming into a relationship of God is kind of like that. Often we never let go of things that we wish to hold onto. Often these are those selfish or self-centered things that we just don’t want to give up. There is a certain amount of fear to letting go those things that we are familiar with and making the leap into the unknown.
In essence, we have to commit to the relationship in order to get where we want to go. Many hang out paralyzed by their fears of letting things go. They never come to the place where they are trusting fully in God. So they never make the leap. We see that in Romans 4:5:
But people cannot do any work that will make them right with God. So they must trust in him, who makes even evil people right in his sight. Then God accepts their faith, and that makes them right with him.
So what is keeping you from making that leap of trust?
