The Art of Letting Go

Usually letting go is the result of something traumatic. It is the result of a cheating scandal, a blow-up fight, and a deep hurt. But what do you do when the person you love is just not the person to help you learn the next lesson? What happens when you aren’t the best fit to help someone learn? 

How do you not take that personally? How do you give it to God? How do you trust that God isn’t trying to hurt you, but instead heal you? How do you continue to be in that person's life? How do you manage to stay connected but separate? How do you give up a friendship that you once held so dear?

The answer is simple in theory but hard in practice. It comes by trusting the Lord is bigger than me and knows what He is doing. Trust stands firm that God has all of the right resources to support that person in place. That he is a good father to not only you but to this person as well. That he wouldn’t leave either of you without the support you need to do what he has called you to do. 

While I learned this story in a friendship, I think it can be related to anything in life. The Lord will equip the called. Our understanding is not a requirement to our obedience. My biggest advice is to come to the Lord with open hands. Even when it is hard lay the relationship, friendship, job, finances, and future at his feet. I believe I will see him transact beauty for ashes. That I will see blessing and favor in the land of the living. That I will be able to look back and understand what he was doing even though I don’t understand it now. 

I also know that when I lay something down, that is when the Lord can do his most miraculous work. Just because you lay it down doesn’t mean you lose it. I think about the cross. I think about the fact that Jesus's resurrection was made perfect after death. In the spirit, letting something die is where resurrection happens. When you lay something down that is the only way for the the Lord to breathe new life back into your circumstance.

I pray that as you let go of whatever you are holding on to, that God's resurrection power would show up mightily in your situation.

Welcome to the unraveling. It is where we shed things the world taught us to become who he created us to be.

Love, Britt