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Letting Go

A woman walking on a stone path beside a cottage surrounded by blooming flowers at sunset
A woman enjoys a peaceful walk through a colorful cottage garden at sunset.

Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, “(1) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:  (2)  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;  (3)  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;  (4)  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;  (5)  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;  (6)  A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;  (7)  A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;  (8)  A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”

I have a hard time letting go – but I, and you, are in good company:

  • Jacob wrestles with the Angel of the Lord (Ge. 32). At Jabbok, after a lifetime of trying to do it his way – ways that failed – Jacob lets go of his past, his control, his plans and grabs onto God for a new future, new trust, new life.
  • Moses at the burning bush. God commands Moses to move beyond his past failures in Egypt to embrace his future purpose.

Letting Go of the past.

  • You ARE NOT your past actions.
  • You ARE NOT your past failures. 
  • You ARE NOT how others treat you. 
  • You ARE who you think you are. 
  • You ARE who you choose to be.

Let it go. Stop worrying about the past and the things that you cannot change. Worrying accomplishes nothing, and it doesn’t help you change.

My Uncle, Mark Kuntzman, said to me one day. “Why worry when you can pray.”

Your past can make you stronger, if you will learn the lesson it offers. You are not required to remain in that situation. Let Go!

  • Proverbs 24:16, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”
  • Ephesians 4:31-32, “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
  • “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert” (Is. 43:18-19).

It’s your choice: Stop worrying, Ask for God’s help, Make a change.

  • “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).
  • “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
  • John 8:32, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
  • Philippians 3:12-14, “(12) Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.  (13)  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,  (14)  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”