When God asks you to let go...

There is an extreme difference when you decide to let it go something or someone - because you don't want it anymore, you don't like it anymore, you don't enjoy it anymore, you don't care anymore and by your own will you say ''I don't hold this anymore, I let it go'' - when God asks you to let go of something or someone - and you still want it, you still like it, you still enjoy it, you still care about it and against His will you say ''Even if you ask me, I don't want to let it go''.

If you can identify yourself, you're like me. I used to question this to God ''Why do you have to ask me things like that? And why does it always have to be something that I love or someone I love?" And in a moment with that tenderness of dad, He replied: "I'm asking because it doesn't belong to me yet, you haven't given it to my domain, but it's still in yours''. That made me think, because there are things that we haven't given to God or maybe we haven't wanted to give him, because we are terrified that control gets out of hand, we feel that if they are in our domain -and not in the unknown- everything will be fine but it is a mistake. The things under our dominion don't have the dreamed use of God, but in the hands of God, everything is different.

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There are so many examples in the bible where God asks his people to let go or give up something or someone they love. One of the most impressive is the story of Abraham and his son Isaac. God tells him very clearly in ''Genesis 22:2, NLT: “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering...'' I see something clear here, to let go or renounce someone or something to God, is synonymous with a sacrificial offering. Sacrificing is not unknown to Him. He gave us His Son, ''Romans 8:32, NLT: Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?''. Sacrifices are acts of deep love for that reason they hurt, but you must understand this: that God asks you to let go or to renounce something/someone it doesn't mean that you are going to lose it.

I know you have heard that when God asks you to give him something it is because he will give you something better, but he has taught me more deeply: if I give him something, it is because he will give me what is mine. When Abraham gives Isaac, God didn't give him another son. On the contrary, He gave back his own son, the same son of promise, ''v. 22: “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”

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Maybe God has been asking you to let go something/someone because He knows, that doesn't belong to you, it is not yours, it is not in what He designed, dreamed, or in the purpose that He created for your life or maybe it is not the time for you to have it. Is diverting you, hurting or delaying His plans for you (even though you love that). And He is asking you because He wants to give you as Abraham, your own son -that is- what is really yours. When I finally accepted this, I went to God and praying I said:

- t hurts so much Lord! -I know. And it's okay for you to cry. Because when

I give you what I have for you, You're going to want to remember what it hurt to let go this and you will not be able to do it. -He answered me.

That same thing He tells you today!

I bless you and hug you!