Let go and Let God

LETTING TO AND LETTING GOD

Many people can’t bring themselves to trust God.  They love God, but to turn everything over to God and let go is beyond them.  The reason for that attitude is often a lack of true knowledge of God.  We are told and say we believe, that God is love, but we don’t trust it.  We can only learn how to trust God by getting to know him better.  So how does one go about getting to know God?  

God has literally laid himself bare for us from the beginning through the Crucifixion.

Through his prophets, God has called out to the human race to hear and listen to his voice.  Over and over God has reached out with his love, laying out a path for us to follow to find peace and joy in this world only to be ignored by those whom he loves.

Our best resource for getting to know God and his love is through Jesus.  When we think of Jesus, we think of a person of compassion, unselfish, gentle, kind and full of love.  Jesus told us more than once “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.”  He does not say, “If you have seen me, you kind of see the Father.”  Oh, no, he says you have seen the Father.  Jesus’ act of love in giving himself to death was the final proof of the love of God and yet we still harbor doubts.

In his book, The Shack Revisited, C. Baxter Kruger states,  “In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”  Further on he states, “There are no conditions, no reasons and no way that can we can cause the blessed Trinity to stop loving us.”  If only we could truly understand and believe it, we would have no trouble putting our total trust in God. 

We get on a bus or a plane or a train and trust the driver to get us where we are going while that driver has no personal connection to us whatsoever, but we deny that trust to the One who wishes to guide us through a more important journey and loves us above all. 

God is not angry or diminished by our lack of trust. It is only we who are the losers.

Prayer is the first step in growing in knowledge of God, reading the Gospels is the second and the first hand accounts of the power of God in the Epistles the third.

As our knowledge of God increases, we will diminish the power of our ego and finally let God sustain us.

Blessings,

Carol Lemelin OPA