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The Importance Of Letting Go

"A big part of trusting God is learning to let go of the things he doesn’t want for us now."

Laney Welch
Oct 25, 2016
University of Oklahoma
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The Importance Of Letting Go
Laney Welch

I feel like I’m in a season of life where I’m having to learn to let go. I so often hold onto the things I thought would be good, the things I had decided were part of God’s plan for me, the plans I so desperately clung to. But I have to let go of the things that are not meant to be a part of this season of my life.

That doesn’t mean those things were bad. That doesn’t mean they were mistakes. That doesn’t take away from the awesome experiences and love you had for those things. It just means the time for that person/dream/place/whatever is over and they are no longer helping you grow.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Some things/relationships/jobs/places/dreams are meant to be a part of your life, and they’re great and beneficial, but many of these things are not meant to stick with us forever. There was a time for them and then there may be time for something else. We have to trust God with those things so that when he calls us into a different season of life, we may be present and content in it.

Maybe we don’t say goodbye forever to those things that are not beneficial to us in this season, but maybe it’s time to take a step back and press pause on those things that are not helping us reach what we desire. Maybe we have to give those things to God and trust that he has a better plan for them than we ever could imagine.

A big part of trusting God is learning to let go of the things he doesn’t want for us now.

Whatever season he calls you to, whatever he calls you to let go of, trust him with that. God’s plan is so much lovelier than ours will ever be and he’s working in you no matter what season you’re in.

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