letting go

So its day two with the devotional gimmick and getting up was slightly easier. Today’s message was 1 Chronicles 29:12-19. It spoke about David giving blessings to God. This is something I may not always be open about, but I know that God has his hands in my life. I also know that most of the things that I can do or accomplish are because of this. Giving back to God was something I struggled with for so long, especially tithing. Its seems now, however, that I couldn’t comfortably live without giving back that portion. That gift I give is multiplied back to me in a way that I really can’t understand…seeing as how the math doesn’t add up.

It also talked about how our lives are “shadows,” and that everything is actually only borrowed from God anyways. All of us tend to hold on to something (material, relational) too tightly, either because we worship it or we think it will last forever. So today, my goal is to back away from my guitars a little bit. I think sometimes I tend to get a little crazy over them. But hey, they say admitting the problem is the first step. Do you have anything you grasp too tightly?

~ by mikemonts on February 19, 2008.