Let Go and Let God
The problems that often confuse us are really conflicts of double-mindedness.
“Let go and let God” is a familiar phrase and has been around forever I suppose. For this reason, and like every memorizable and repeatable truism, it’s easy to run past it without any serious thought. But let’s not do this right now. There has to have been a reason it was coined and shows up on the walls of twelve-step meeting rooms around the world.
This Still Point Project’s stated purpose is to direct you and me away from the socially popular conventional knee-jerk solutions to life’s challenges. It points us, instead, in the opposite direction. It tells us that our best solutions will be found when we sit and ask for help from the only source deeper and wiser than our own perceived intellects.
The still point disconnects us from looking for advice from “experts” and instead empowers us to live courageously against the popular current pressing us to just go along to get along. It offers a life of deeper meaning and greater power to swim against the social currents of our day.
Discomfort in this context is expected and preferred. No quick solutions promised. Instead, understand that letting go feels like an out of control step and one a quitter might consider.
The opposite, holding on and struggling to achieve a victory over things, seems in most minds a more responsible thing to do.
Which shows us the problems that often confuse us are really a conflict of double-mindedness — wanting to let go and hold on at the same time. Wanting our cake and eating it too.
I don’t know what problem or problems you may be facing right now but I do know which road will lead you to the best solutions. Let go and let God do what he does best.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Psalms 23 (ESV)
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My favorite sentiment to live by. Once you learn to do this, your life can change in amazing ways.