Let It Go

My granddaughter recently posted a video on Facebook of my 2 year old grandson singing the popular song, "Let It Go", from the Disney movie Frozen. As I watched the heartfelt attempt at singing, I couldn't understand all of the words, but the passion was there. Any grandfather would say watching that performance, "There's the next American Idol!" He is growing up so fast and is the joy along with his two sisters and brother of our lives. But out of the mouths of babes come answers we sometimes need to hear.

Let it go. Sometimes it's hard to let go, but as we grow in Jesus we have to learn to do so. Recently I have really had to work at letting go of some hurt that I experienced because someone lied to me and the results jolted me to the core. When someone hurts you like that it's hard to let go, especially when the outcome affects your livelihood and future. You make a decision on what you feel is God's will, yet sometimes other factors put you outside of it. I've learned from this situation that when others think it's a good thing based on what the're told you better look before you leap. Because friend, if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is, and before you know it you become a victim rather than a victor and bitterness grabs ahold of you.

Ephesian 4:31 says, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"

Bitterness is like a cancer. It will eat you up piece by piece. It makes you feel betrayed, worthless, unappreciated, anti-social, and all alone. It steals your joy, your peace, your hope, and it clouds your future. You don't trust anyone, turn your back on your friends, even sometimes get angry with God because He let you go thru what you went thru. Yet Paul said simply, "Let it go."

What my little grandson sang made me realize that too many of us are holding on to things that hurt us with bitterness being the chieftain of them all. For us to progress bitterness must be cast out of our lives. Pardon me, but from a veteran soldier of the cross, it's easier said than done; but if Paul could do it so can I and so can you. The only words I could really understand my grandson sing were the words, "Let it go!" Paul was beaten, shipwrecked, hungry, thirsty, imprisoned, and left for dead. He was lied about, talked about, and even had some seek his life. Yet he "let it go" every time, brushed off the dust, and kept on keeping on.

Don't let bitterness weigh you down or steal your joy-let it go!