LET GO AND LET GOD
As children bring their broken toys,
with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God,
because He was my friend.
But then instead of leaving Him in
peace to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help,
with ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched them back and cried,
"How can you be so slow?"
"My child" He said, "What could I do?
You never did let go."
-Lauretta P. Burns
The part I love about this poem is the distinction of just what it is we need to let go of in order for God to help us in bringing about fulfillment of our deepest desires.. and that is, our own ways.
This is a very important distinction. The moment we "snatch [our own ways] back" is the moment we allow God to work within us and teach us and direct our steps as we move our feet.
Which brings to mind another poem:
"With thoughtless and impatient hands
We tangle up the plan
The Lord hath wrought.
And when we cry in pain He saith,
“Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot.”
How many times in our lives do we refuse to let go of our own ways so that God's ways can come in and heal us instead? And what's worse? We blame the brokenness on Him! When He is the one working constantly to undo the tangled knot we've tied by holding onto our own fallen ways over His omniscient, omnipotent ones to begin with.
We somehow think drawing out our own map from what we know and can see, and filling in the details with guesses on what we can't by stumbling along is better than tapping into the satellite of God and being guided by His GPS system! How foolish! Why are we holding onto "broken toys" and "our own ways" when God, the master physician can heal or soothe any pain and has technologies we've never even dreamed of and can teach us how to receive- and appreciate and Love the Greater things which He has for us by following His ways?
I Know that as we "Let Go" of our own ways and "Let God" 's ways in instead, we will find the Peace that He has promised us within the scriptures. A peace that surpasses all understanding; and Grants unto us the Power to be able to patiently endure the process of time required for God to untie the knot we've all tangled one another up inside of by holding onto our own ways over His.
"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right." - Max Lucado
"We must seek first to Know God's will, and then we can seek to do it." -Unknown
"Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and LEAN not unto thine own understanding; in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He Shall direct your paths." - Prov 3:5
"What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. -Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it. " -Max Lucado
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. -John 14: 27
Fret not about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. -Phillipians 4: 6-7
We tangle up the plan
The Lord hath wrought.
And when we cry in pain He saith,
“Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot.”
How many times in our lives do we refuse to let go of our own ways so that God's ways can come in and heal us instead? And what's worse? We blame the brokenness on Him! When He is the one working constantly to undo the tangled knot we've tied by holding onto our own fallen ways over His omniscient, omnipotent ones to begin with.
We somehow think drawing out our own map from what we know and can see, and filling in the details with guesses on what we can't by stumbling along is better than tapping into the satellite of God and being guided by His GPS system! How foolish! Why are we holding onto "broken toys" and "our own ways" when God, the master physician can heal or soothe any pain and has technologies we've never even dreamed of and can teach us how to receive- and appreciate and Love the Greater things which He has for us by following His ways?
I Know that as we "Let Go" of our own ways and "Let God" 's ways in instead, we will find the Peace that He has promised us within the scriptures. A peace that surpasses all understanding; and Grants unto us the Power to be able to patiently endure the process of time required for God to untie the knot we've all tangled one another up inside of by holding onto our own ways over His.
"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right." - Max Lucado
"We must seek first to Know God's will, and then we can seek to do it." -Unknown
"Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and LEAN not unto thine own understanding; in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He Shall direct your paths." - Prov 3:5
"What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. -Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it. " -Max Lucado
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. -John 14: 27
Fret not about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. -Phillipians 4: 6-7
