Be Free

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I must share something with you today—there is nothing, absolutely nothing in this world more freeing than praying about your problems and then handing them over to our Father God to take care of.

I am finally in a place in my life where I can do this—well, 95 percent of the way there! It is the most amazing and peaceful feeling there is. Just being able to put your full trust in God and knowing that He will take care of you no matter what is so liberating. It is a like a heavy weight has been lifted from your chest and you can breathe again. I can’t think of any other way to describe it.

To be clear, this doesn’t mean that we can simply pray and then sit by and do nothing. We can’t just pray and then hang out on our couch and watch TV. We must do whatever it is that the Holy Spirit calls us to do. We must continue to spend quality time with God each day in prayer and by reading His Word. We must continue to grow in our spiritual lives and lead a life that is pleasing to God. We must fight the good fight. We must put our trust, hope, and faith in Him.

There is, however, one thing we can stop doing, and that is worrying! There are at least 30 different Bible verses that tell us not to worry or be afraid about anything. I think that God wants us to take all of these to heart. (Otherwise, why mention it so many times?) I find Matthew 6:25-34 is especially reassuring:

Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can anyone of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?  “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith?  So, do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

There is so much peace to be found in the Word of God. And, there is an even greater, more profound peace to be found when you hand your life over to Jesus and have a true relationship with Him. We all tend to make life so much more complicated than it should be or needs to be.

Do yourself a favor and let God handle everything. Let Him take control. Be free.