Isaiah 43:18,19
Never forget how to let go. It may be a person, a thing or a moment that you can never repeat. Nothing challenges our ability to let go like death. It wrenches from our hands a loved one to whom we would cling forever if we could. When you stand over a casket that is being lowered into the ground, truth slaps you in the face. The person you loved is gone.
For Christians, death is a portal that enables us to move from one realm to existence into another. Eventually death will knock on the door no matter who we are. It helps a little to know that it will come. When it does, God will give you grace to accept what cannot be changed.
That same grace will empower you as you learn to cope with changes among the living. Grace empowers us to continue and experience with God’s help. Why don’t you ask Him for the grace you need to accept the things that you cannot change? When He gives it to you, get on with your life.
Each experience has its own value if you do not close your eyes to where you are, trying foolishly to be where you have already been. I know life can feel terribly unstable and vulnerable when you accept change. But I am so glad God ever remains the same. He is the stability that enables us to adjust to the variables of life.
If you recognize areas in your life where you have been guilty of resisting change, stop right where you are and allow God to cleanse your heart from the fear of change.
Know in your spirit that something good is going to come out of it. Take it in stride and tart planning ways you can enjoy where you are. Maybe you have been neglecting your children, husband, or job. You want to go back to the past. But you are also missing the good things that God had prepared for you today.
Our faith teaches us to trust God. He doesn’t change, but his methods of ministering to you will change over and over again. Do not worry. He will give you what you need when you need it. He may not bring it the same way twice. But why do you care how He does it as long as you know He does it? Leave the “hows” in the hands of the great one who is able to control the circumstances in your life.
Repent of manipulating those with whom you associate. Let them go. You have no right to hold anyone a prisoner in the jail cell of your fear, not even yourself. Let yourself go. You have been imprisoned from what God wants to give you most, a new experience in Christ Jesus!
Source: T.D.Jakes
