Giving Up

I’ve had this thought going through my mind for the past year, a thought of “How to better serve The Lord in my day to day life, how to bring Him into my workplace and what does that all look like?”
Throughout the year God has been working in my life and I see more and more that I was not the only person with these questions and thoughts, it’s something that many people question. With that comes more questions and more questions, yet God is there with the answers.

The biggest thing The Father has shown me and that I see others struggling so much with is stress, what is the fix to stress? We know deep inside that it’s not from The Father, yet we think of it as just a normal thing that we will have the rest of our lives. The root of stress is fear, it’s just another form of fear, and we know that fear is not from The Father.
We have all heard people say, give what you have to God, we all know that all we have belongs to Him, yet we still hold on to it, or maybe you have given all you have to God and yet you still feel stress at times; stress is a warning that something isn’t right, we shouldn’t just brush it off as just another feeling, stress is not a feeling, its a warning device telling you that there is something you have not given to The Father yet. When we are to give all things to The Father it means ALL things not just a couple things liken your possessions and your money but everything! It may be hard but what do you have to loose? God made you, God gave you all the things you have including your life, your work, your family, your health, your past, your present, your future, your gifts, your talents, your words, your actions, and the list goes on and on; its endless! If God gave us all these things why are we holding onto them and trying to figure them out on our own? Why are we trying to fix our own problems? You see when we give ALL we have to God and that means ALL we have, where does the stress go? If we look at stress as a way of God showing us that there is something we need to give to Him what do we have to be stressed about? Just think about it for a minute, really think about it as hard as you can; if we have given all we have to God what is there to be stressed about?

Over the past year I’ve had to give God things more than once as I’m so used to doing things on my own that I tend to fall back into that way of thinking again and again and have to continually give things to God and I believe its something I will do for the rest of my life.

Chasing after my dreams instead of money is on of the main things I’ve had to give to God over and over again, but one thing that kept coming to mind was “You only have one life to live.” How many of us have given up our dreams that God has given us to have the comfort of a paycheck every week? At the end of your life is it worth it? Everyone’s path is different, but don’t give up on your dreams.

As the title of this post says, we must start Giving Up our lives so we can start living the lives God has planned for us. God is waiting for us to give up and let go that He may fill us and lay down the road for our lives, what are we waiting for?