LET GOD

“Let go and let God.” This sentiment along with “Easy does it” “Live and let live” “Think, Think, Think” and “One day at a time” grace the walls of AA clubs and meetings worldwide. The book Alcoholics Anonymous states, “Alcohol is but a symptom of a deeper underlying problem, the bottle only a symbol.” In truth, every living problem is but a symptom of a deeper underlying problem: our choice in distancing ourselves from the source. The solution is abandoning ourselves utterly to God‘s love and direction. We do not work on ourselves; we honestly identify our shortcomings/defects of character and ask God to remove them. This is made possible when we take a fearless and honest moral inventory of our lives and share it with a trusted spiritual advisor. In this way we get down to causes and conditions, allowing the truth to surface through the layers of a lifetimes worth of resentment and fear, we are reborn. When we “Let God” work in this way we surrender, we don’t work on ourselves.

When we become afraid, nervous, and anxious or excited we ask God for guidance in prayer and meditation. We don’t work on ourselves. See a trend here? “Let go and let God.” By getting out of the way and “letting” God He will provide the direction and strength required to solve any difficulty, raise us out of misery. Our job in this life is to be the best instrument of God’s will that we can be. A Stradivarius is just an old piece of wood with strings until a master draws a bow across it. Prepare yourself to be the best instrument you can be by realizing the Presence of God in everything and everyone and “let” God draw his bow across your strings, for is He not the author of the tune?