Such a common slogan. We
hear it regularly. Yet, we never do it.
There is something in the
nature of man that makes him want to be in control. Every form of
doctrine that comes along and tells people they have control is far
more readily accepted than the doctrines that say they have no
control. Human beings being on the throne of their own lives, their
own hearts, is simply more comfortable than believing you have no
control over anything.
So we struggle in vain.
Fighting against the air, boxing with our shadows, convinced that
there is a victory to be had if we just work a little harder, argue a
little more fervently, insist a little more strongly that we are the
masters of our own destiny. Then it all falls apart and we become
angry and disillusioned and shake a fist in the air as if being upset
at GOD is really going to make it change.
Still, when it all is said
and done, we feel a need to be angry because things are not working
out the way we planned and hoped and wanted.
The world is going to hell
in a hand basket. The downward spiral is continuing and accelerating
at an alarming rate. Immorality and decadence has taken over our
nation and our churches. The perverse and the morbid are common
place. What are we to do? Things simply are not going as we think
they should and we need to do something.
For some, that means
doubling and redoubling their efforts to contain the decay. They hope
that the passing of laws and the restricting of people's activities
will somehow change the course of things. For some reason, they
haven't noticed that the more effort they put out, the worse things
get.
For me, when things go bad
or are contrary to what I had hoped would transpire, I just give up.
I stop striving and I stop fighting and I hand it all over to GOD
with a firm belief that what HE has planned is what is going to
happen, and what is happening. For me, that is a simple concept.
I know that we are all
raised to fight for what we want and to strive to achieve greatness.
Some people do, in fact, achieve worldly greatness. But no one has
ever achieved real eternal greatness by striving to do what it is
clear GOD is not doing.
I am a strong advocate that
we need leaders in this nation. Really good leaders. The kind of
leaders who don't think along the lines of forcing people to do what
they feel is right. Real leaders show people a better way and hope
they take it. Not all will. Not all people are going to accept
everyone else. Some are going to be racists, some homophobes, some
will hate old people and some will hate young people. Some will
despise fat folk and some will disdain skinny ones. But, no law can
actually change that, it just makes them fight all the harder for
their brand of hate and intolerance.
In the end, we human beings
have no power. We have no position and no authority. All we have is a
very weak effort to control our own flesh and no power at all to
control others.
And I say it is time to
give up!!
It is time that my
Christian brothers and sisters determined to return to the ways of
GOD and just let the world go however it is going to go. Let it
alone. Let society evolve (or devolve) as it will. Just leave it all
in GOD's hands and just turn away. It is time we spent our efforts on
being compassionate and loving and kind and meek and a real
reflection of how JESUS treated the sinners of HIS day. Because the
truth is, JESUS got invited to spend time with the sinners and the
religious folk hated HIM. So it should be with you and me.
This doesn't mean we are
handing the world over to the ungodly. Quite the contrary, we are
handing it over to GOD. Who HE gives it to is none of our concern. We
have enough on our plate trying to overcome the reputation that
hateful and intolerant men and women have given to our JESUS. We have
enough on our plate to keep us busy doing the work of GOD, and
letting HIM do the work of the world. This is my father's world.
Though the wrong seems all so strong, GOD is the ruler yet.
So. Let Go And Let GOD.
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