Let Go and Be New

Standing in silence, I closed my eyes. I felt the wind in my hair and I began to feel water falling upon me like rain. It rained for so long that it became a flood and the water was immersing me until I could not breathe any more. I heard the words “Let go.” So, I looked down and I saw that I was holding onto many weights and they all had names on them; “Flesh, Past, Self-esteem, Acceptance, Rules….”

I began to look around trying to find something to cut them away and I heard again “Let go.” My arms were then so heavy and my hands hurt from cramping and I knew that I had to let go If I wanted to breathe again. I looked down to my hands and looked at the weights… I knew that I wanted to let go, but I just didn’t know how. I kept thinking, “If I let go, will they come back? What will I do when they are gone? Is it really going to be better?” At that very moment I heard again, “Let go. This is not your portion; to die with your flesh and your past weighing you down.” I looked up and saw the light of the sun and then looked back down again. I turned around and I saw a man standing with His hands open and His arms stretched out. He smiled and told me to give the weights to Him.

I put my head down in shame because I knew that I had held them for too long. Then, knowing my thoughts, the man lifted my chin so our eyes could meet. He just smiled and with so much love He gently covered my heavy, swollen hands. He then looked into my eyes and said with such grace, “Let Me have them.”

One by one I let go and one by one He took each of them as though they did not weigh anything. He then threw them far away, and as I was watching, I saw white words in the water. It said “As far as the east is to the west.” He then turned, smiled and scooped me up in His arms and we began to rise above the water. He placed me on solid ground and I immediately fell to my knees bowing and giving Him praise. He then leaned down and said to me, “I now call you pure.”  And with gentle hands, He raised me to my feet. I realized that I was no longer wet but in new clothing, just as someone in royalty would wear. I spun around and gave Him a hug. He smiled and spoke as though He was speaking to my spirit. He said “If anyone be in Me he is new; all things are passed away; behold all things are made new!” 

Learning from God's Creation

Gen 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

Gen 1:26 “And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

Gen 1:27 “So God created man in his own image…,”

So here we are! There I was with the Lover of my soul. I remember it like it was yesterday.

He wore a gleaming white robe with a majestic purple trim. I, beside Him, was wearing a beautiful purple and white dress with a gold trim. Hand in hand, He and I were walking through a desert. As we were walking, He was teaching me about His wonderful works and showing me great things He had made, the meanings of them, and the reasons why He had created them.

I bent down and ask Him the meaning of creating dirt, He knelt down and began to say " This dirt seems to be nothing right now, but if you add a little life to it, that same meaningless dirt means everything to the life that is put into it. I did this to show you that no matter how dirty you may get, no matter what you do to make your life messy, as long as you have Me, there will always be life inside of you to for you to be able to hang onto that life and grow out from your mess to make something beautiful of it."

He knelt down and placed a seed in the ground and poured a little bit of water over it. He looked up at me and said that there was one thing that everything needed in order to live. Then He leaned over and began to breathe over it. I knelt down to see what was happening, and I was completely in awe of His wondrous miracles as I watched a leaf gracefully begin to appear out of the ground until it formed into the most beautiful flower. He looked up at me once more and smiled. He rose and continued on walking.

At times it seems like we forget to slow down and observe what Father God has created. We seem to forget to stop and smell the roses by the road side while strolling down the lane. We forget that, even though it is true, it is not just in life situations that things are done with and for a reason. Father God wants us to not look at just the big pictures, but He wants us to focus and learn from the smallest things. Look at the ant. They are very tiny and forgotten at most times, but if we took time to watch them we learn that no matter how big the object in the situation is they work hard until that project is done. They do not focus on how big and how hard the project is; they focus on what needs to be done to build it or to tear it down. They go step by step until it is done and they do not try to rush. What can we learn from the caterpillar? We learn that if we have patience through our process, even though we may be small and it feels like we aren’t going anywhere or doing anything, we will eventually come out of our cocoon. We will have our wings of knowledge, gifts, and callings, and know how to use them. In Col 3:17 it says “Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” We can do this and God wants to teach us how. We just have slow down, learn from God’s creation, and live one day at a time. Mat 6:34 “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.”

God, thank you for teaching us how to live simple. Thank you for being patient with us even when we try to rush our way through life. Help us to learn from Your creation and work hard and to be patient with what life throws at us. We know that all things were made by you for a reason, please help us to use that to help us be and do what you have created us to be and do.

Thank You Jesus! Amen.