Give It Up Already

The Bible tells us to give our worries and problems over to God so that He can handle them for us.

A lot of us do bring our problems to God. We discuss them with Him during our prayer times. We ask Him for His help and guidance. We say amen...

And then we take our problems back on our shoulders and walk off wondering how we're going to make it all come together.

We serve a great big God. We serve a God who is all-seeing and all-knowing. He also loves us more than we could ever imagine. Why is it that we can't seem to fully trust Him to handle our problems? I know, to us they seem so big. But, to Him they are small potatoes! Yet we continue to hold on to our griefs and allow ourselves to worry and fret about how to resolve our problems.

The Lord doesn't want you to live in worry. He doesn't want you fearful or anxious. He doesn't want you going throughout your day stressed out. Jesus gave us His peace. (John 14:27) He assured us that His burden was light. Our Lord offered us perfect rest in Him. (Matthew 11:29, 30)

All we have to do is surrender. We just have to give up our need to control and be in charge. We need to surrender our will to the Lord's and trust that He is working it all out for us... even when we don't see it happening... even when we don't think it's coming together fast enough... even when the resolution is something that we ourselves didn't come up with.

We serve a great big God. We serve a God who loves us so much that He's willing to take on our problems and concerns. He's willing to fix things for us, so that we can live happily and at peace.

Too many of us are stressed out for no reason.

Today, take your concerns to God and leave them with Him. Allow your Heavenly Father to be that Father for you and solve your situations. Anything that He comes up with is much better than anything you yourself could have conceived. Trust Him to handle it.

Verse of the Day: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:6, 7