Let Go, So You Can Get Going.

I love it when my kids call me mommy. It is so spontaneous and affectionate. My bible study was viewing a Beth Moore video, and she said something that struck me. She said that there was never an adopted child that wasn't completely loved. After all the trouble it took to finally get that child, how could anyone ever doubt the love of the parents for their child?

We are God's adopted children and after all God went through to redeem us, how could we ever think we weren't completely loved. Roman’s 8:15 says, “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, "Abba (Daddy)! Father!"

However, my deep love for my children doesn’t change the need for me to discipline their internal lives. Just like my parenting, God’s great love for us often takes us to places we might have never chosen for ourselves. Beth Moore also said that with the new covenant of Christ, God prioritized the internal work over the external working of miracles found mainly in the Old Testament. When God doesn't perform a "miracle" or work in our timing, we can be confident that He is still at work in our lives, internally. He wants us to go somewhere, but is working on something that must go, so that we can go where He wants us to go.

We finally arrive we can look back and see how He was with us every step of the way. We will know that we were truly loved even in the hard times. God will use your struggles in an amazing way, either to draw you closer to Him or draw something from you that is hindering His work.

Let go of what needs to be gone, so you can get going to where you are supposed to be. Be confident, like in Phil 1: 6, which says, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” He who began a good work will be faithful to complete it in you. He will make your paths straight and show you the way to go. If you are His child, you are loved, He is on your side and He will never let you go until He returns.