Let It Go!

We often go through life holding on to past hurts, past failures, past mistakes, past guilt, and past relationships only to discover what we are holding on to what has actually let us go. We spend years mad and bitter with ourselves, others, and just life period when we don't have to go through life like that. If we would just LET IT GO, you can live a victorious life. When you hold on to what your mother did or what your father didn't do, what your ex boyfriend did or what your ex wife didn't do, we frustrate happiness and contentment in life.

The question becomes, in light of letting go, the question has to become how do I know if I'm still holding on? If you can't speak when you see them, you have not let go. If you always recall what they've done to you 20 years ago and have it all dated and cataloged, you have not let go. If you still find yourself on the run avoiding the very people who know your failures, mistakes, guilt, you have not let go. If the Lord has convicted, changed and converted the one who made the offense against you and now he or she is walking for God and you can't rejoice with them or support them with your presence or prayers, you have not let go.

The bad thing is we are still holding on to what has actually let us go. When we hold on we become bitter and bitterness is like a cancer, it eats us up from the inside out. Beloved, I beg you to let it go. LET THE HURT GO! LET THE PAST FAILURES GO! LET THE MISTAKES GO! LET THE GUILT GO! LET THAT EXBOYFRIEND GO, LET THAT EXWIFE GO! LET YOUR FATHERS ABSENCE GO! LET YOUR MOTHERS MISTREATMENT OF YOU GO! LET IT GO, LET IT GO, LET IT GO!

Be Encouraged!

Living Life On Your Knees

Sir George Adam Smith tells how he and his guide were climbing the Weisshorn in the Swiss Alps. It was stormy and they were making their climb on the sheltered side of the peak. When they reached the summit, they were filled with the exhilaration. Sir George forgot about the fierce winds, leaped up and was nearly blown over the edge to the glacier below The guide grabbed hold of him and exclaimed: "On your knees, sir. You are safe here only on your knees!"

 

Life is like that. When we accomplish great things or even seek to accomplish great things we sometimes do not factor in the winds of the world that can blow us from our place of safety to our doom and demise. Therefore, you and I must remember that the only safe place in life is on your knees.

 

Jesus Christ understood this. Jesus had a strong prayer life. He was always praying. When you search the biblical record, you would discover that the disciples would often wake up in the mornings looking for Jesus only to discover that He would be gone. Where? Mark 1:35 says, “Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.” He prayed all morning. At other times He prayed all night. Luke 6:12 says, “Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.” There were even times Jesus would send His disciples on to their next destination while he remained behind to pray. Matthew 14:23 says, “And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there.” Jesus Christ did not do anything on earth without first spending in prayer.

 

If Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, had to depend on prayer during His earthly ministry, then how much more do you and I need to learn how to pray! If you and I are to accomplish great things for God, we must first spend time on or knees. It is the only sure place to get God’s best for your life.

 

Be Encouraged,

 

D’Andre J. Cross, Sr.