Open Your Hands October 8, 2008

So…once again God is teaching me through my daughter.

The other morning we went on our daddy/daughter date to Chic Fil A.  (She loves it there because she gets to play on the playground AND they always give her a balloon!)

I ordered me (and her) a chicken, egg & cheese biscuit and then took all our food to the table and began to cut it up.

Lucretia and I have learned to be strategic in the way we feed her because, well, she LOVES bread!  Seriously, anytime we ask her if she’s ready to eat the first word out of her mouth is usually “bread.”  AND…if we would let her…that’s all she would eat.

So…I took the egg & cheese off the biscuit and cut it up (and hid the biscuit) and she devoured it.  So then I cut up half of the biscuit…and THAT’S when things got interesting.

She automatically grabbed two huge pieces and shoved them in her mouth…then she took both hands and grabbed as much biscuit as she could get in each one.

I tried to get the biscuit out of her hands and put the food back on the table…but she didn’t want to let go of what was so precious to her…she was literally holding onto the bread as tight as she could & was NOT interested at all in letting go for fear that I might take it from her.

It broke my heart in a way that my little girl didn’t trust me.  I’ve never taken anything from her; in fact, I am the one who provided the biscuit for her.  AND…if she had finished the biscuit I knew how to bless her with more.  I became frustrated and began to think, “Where in the world did she adopt this mentaility?”

BAM…it hit me…we all have it!

There have been so many times I’ve held things in my hands and refused to let go for fear that God wanted to take them from me…not understanding that I wouldn’t have a thing had He not decided long ago, in His mercy, to bless me.

God is the One who provides for me; in fact, all that I have that is good comes from Him.  He isn’t out to get me…to take away from me…to rob me of anything.  In fact, He knows what I need WAY more than I know what I need.

There comes a point in our walk with Christ where we need to open our hands and simply trust Him…maybe it is with our money…or our dreams…or our relationships–whatever.  God is SO MUCH BIGGER than what we hold in our hands…and if we would simply be willing to let go and allow Him to take out what doesn’t belong so He can put in what He wants for us…life would be so much better.

So…is there anything you are holding onto that God wants you to let go of?