Trust God in Your Anxieties, Revisited
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- Trust God
- Trust God in Your Blessings
- Trust God in Your Anxieties
- Trust God in Your Anxieties, Revisited
- Trust God in Your Wilderness
- Trust God in Your Confusion
Yesterday after submitting my post on anxieties, I had a family crisis related to my oldest son that made what I said become more real to me. For a long time my wife and I have been trying to help my son be successful despite some severe mental illness. We have encouraged; we have provided; we have disciplined; we have forgiven; we have counseled. We have also wept and wrung our hands with anxiety and worry.
Yesterday, some events took place that helped me realize that too often I want to act the part of “savior.” I want to fix what is wrong and make everything right. So I lie awake at night trying to figure out solutions (worrying). I fret over small matters and large hoping to find resources or angles I have missed.
Unfortunately (or perhaps, fortunately), I am not a savior. There is much in this world that is beyond my control. The sooner I’m able to place those things in the hands of a loving, caring, all-powerful God the better off I will be and the better off my son will be. Being able to let go of one of the most important things in my life (my son), and trust him to God is at once both frightening and freeing.
Last night as I let go, God seemed to be reminding me of his infinite love. Yes, I love my son very much, but God loves him far more. Why shouldn’t the One with this abundant love be permitted to take charge, bring healing, and provide the needed guidance for my son? I trust God with my son.
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Sometimes it is harder than we think to “LET GO AND LET GOD” but that really is the only answer and the only way, at least that I have learned, to not try to take on all the tasks that are much larger and require much more strength to overcome than I will ever have. It is God who has the strength to accomplish all these trials and intends to care for us…but we just have the fear of letting go sometimes. Love you-
Fear of letting go is very real because when we let go we lose control of the outcome. What I fail to realize sometimes is that I don’t have control of the outcome to begin with.