Letting Go

There are some attitudes I've been struggling to let go of. I don't know why I hold on to them. I think it's comfortable to believe those seemingly small lies, i.e. that if we let go of our certain way of thinking, we won't have control and all will go awry. But am I not a Christian, as Keith Green put it, a little Christ? Is not Christ to have total reign? Contrary to my thinking, when I submit to His control, I am freer to do God's work. These wrong attitudes, sin, weigh me down. They don't allow me to run the race set before me. I can either choose to be handicapped in my lack of confession of sin, or surrender to His Spirit filling every nook and cranny. Last year, my Bible study group taught the preschoolers "Obedience brings blessing!" But so hard to live out in our adult life! If I would only learn by application that submission to God always brings His blessing!!

"What things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ." —Philippians 3:7