Let Go

If you're feeling all bagged down by just a whole bunch of stuff?

LET THEM GO.

No chains are to be tied on to us ever since He set us free and we accepted that. That's the key though, "acceptance." Salvation IS about acceptance.

We accept:

1) the truth that God loves us and He came to Earth to die for you and me

Salvation comes from the recognition of Christ's sacrifice on the cross. His divinity and humanity rolled into a perfect Lamb that was slain and came back to life to give us the victory we can never attain on our own. (John 3:16; Rom. 10:9)

2) that we are WORTH saving.

He did so, we must be worth loving so much. A God coming down to Earth and dying by the hands of His creation? What more proof about love do you need? We KNOW love BECAUSE He loved us. (1 John 4:19; John 1:1-5; Luke 19:10)

3) that we NEED Him.

He's so loving that He'd allow us to go our way if that's what we want. He won't force His salvation onto us, He wants us to willingly accept it. (John 3:16)

4) that we HAVE been forgiven

This is probably the hardest thing to accept; for the most part, we accept His grace., but we fail to accept His forgiveness. How? We fail to forgive ourselves. "He forgave us all our sins. (Col. 2:13b)"

5) His lordship as part of the process

We have been born into sin, no way out of it but through Him. Thing is, we don't just get whisked up to heaven the moment we accept Him as our Savior, we are commanded to still live in this world while not being of it. Hard eh? Given that we are NOT capable of doing good. So what's His answer to that? "Accept me as LORD and SAVIOR -- not just as SAVIOR." His ways are sure, and His plans are perfect. We have no idea what we're doing, we need His guidance. (Jeremiah 29:11)

This Saint is not in a good position right now, and he knows this is what he needs to do: LET GO.

To be able to fully follow Him? We must let go of the pride that we keep as part of what we THINK is righteousness, most of all? We must let go of the need to control our lives. Salvation is about acceptance, true. But acceptance will not be complete without letting go -- we never really fully "accept" something until we let go of something else.

Just let go. If it seems like you can't? Cry out to Him. He'll listen. He's our Father after all.