Take My Own Advice...

For awhile now I have been writing on here about trust. Well, I've really started seeing how taking my own advice would be a good thing to do! (sad..i know) While I am rejoicing in receiving a tremendous scholarship that I am so grateful for (PRAISE GOD), I still feel as if all good is happening to those around me. The thing I think of next though is, perhaps I'm seeing their victories, and missing mine. Frustrating. But I have been noticing the trust in the Lord that people have is paying off (not trying to relate it to money), and how much it has worked for them to just LET GO AND LET GOD! I've heard that saying for many years now, but never really fully comprehended its importance until this year. The other day, I was snooping through my mom's stuff in one of her Bible covers and I found a little book opened flat to a page that had on one page the title, "Let Go-Let God." So I was compelled to read what was on that small page, and what I read was a simple but profound poem. It goes as follows:
Have you ever tried praying about it,
That problem that clouds your day?
Have you ever tried turning it over to God
And letting Him have His way?

Have you ever tried saying, "Your will be done"
And practiced just letting go,
Knowing He'll guide you out of the fog
Of that problem that troubles you so?

You'll find He is ready to help you,
You need only open your heart;
He's waiting and willing to carry the load--
The "letting go" is your part.
(Answered Prayer:Words of Faith, Hope, and Love by Helen Lowrie Marshall)

Now that is a fantastic poem, and frightenly relevant to my life, and probably to many of your lives as well. So much of the stuff that is bogging me down, I am trying to do all by myself. I'm not fully realizing my incapability of doing so. God wants to take care of all that stuff, but I'm not letting Him. I know He's working for my good, because He already has so much!!!! But I know if I would just give it all, He would deliver. "Letting go" is my part. When will I learn to let go. I ask you to pray this prayer with me:

Father God, I come to you this day with an earnest plea for help. I am a mere mortal trying to do it all by myself, not giving it to You as You have instructed me too. Lord, as I face this day, I ask You to guide and lead me, and let your will be done. As I let go Father, help me with (insert personal issues). Thank you Lord God for all that you have done for me and so richly blessed me with. In His Most Holy Name, Amen.

So right now, I am challenging myself to LET GO AND LET GOD, as well as challenging you. And lemme tell ya, it is a challenge. It's not something many of us are used to doing, we want to handle things ourselves, always thinking, "I can handle/fix it." Well, newsflash, no you can't, Let God.

In Christ our Savior,
Adam