Religion: A Pastor Ponders

Letting Go

by Pastor William Jenkins

April 29, 2005

I was engaged in conversation with someone who had been struggling with a particularly difficult problem for several months.

As we talked I reminded this person that she had turned her problem this way and that way and any number of other ways without getting any resolution. “As a matter of fact”, I said, “You have turned this problem every way but loose.”

It can be very difficult to turn some things loose: problems, worries, money, plans, habits, loved ones, etc. To turn loose is what Jesus asks of those who would follow Him.

“Let go of everything”, He says. “Let go of your pride, your cares, your possessions, your life; turn everything loose and follow Me.” Turning loose is evidence of confidence in the faithfulness of God, that whenever we turn loose, God takes hold.

“Sure it takes a lot of courage to put things in God’s hands…
“To give ourselves completely, our lives, our hopes, our plans;
“To follow where He leads us and make His will our own…
“But all it takes is foolishness to go the way alone.”

So wrote Betsy Kline.
In the life of faith, to turn loose is to let go and let God.

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