Let Everything Go

Sometimes the solution to a problem is just to give up and let go of your right to be right, your right to an inheritance, your right to special attention, your right to a certain seat, or to a certain place, or to a certain privilege, or to a certain position. Just give it up. Let it go. Don't let selfishness keep you from solving the problem and restoring peace. From personal experience, I know that my prayer life tends to be very shallow unless I deliberately, intentionally make the effort to deepen and develop it on a daily basis. Prayer must be central to our lives if we are serious about embracing the magnificent obsession. So..how's your prayer life? Who is watching you and the way you handle your problems and disputes? Often it's someone you don't even know is watching. But you and I can count on the fact that one reason God allows us to have problems is so we can demonstrate to a watching world how His children respond. Abraham had let everything go, including first choice of the land God had promised to give him. He impressed me as someone who wanted to be right with God more than he wanted to insist on his own rights. He wanted to maintain his testimony more than he wanted to accumulate the world's treasures. He wanted peace in his home more than he wanted property and possessions. And, so he had to just let everything go. I learned that you can't outgive God. If I just give up and let go, what He gives me in return makes what I had clenched in my fist seem so small and worthless.
Hebrews 12:1, Luke 3:21-22, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Luke 17:33, 2 Corinthians 9:8