“Stop struggling and just trust me!” 

I found these words coming from my own lips as I hoisted a 5-year-old onto my shoulder to hang Christmas ornaments on the tree. 

As soon as I said it, I immediately thought that this is how God must feel all the time with me. In my innate need and desperation to fix things and solve the problems, I constantly often find myself struggling with something from practical matters, to thought processes in my own head.

I turn over every possibility of what should or could be and I search for the “best” answer to every problem. I struggle, squirming about and trying to adjust my present circumstance to achieve a vantage point, that I think is best, risking falling out of step and injuring myself along the way. Not because God dropped me or let go, but because my struggling against him caused me to fall from safety. 

All the while, God is lifting me up, holding me fast, knowing that the moment I stop struggling and simply be still in His presence, that he can position me just right – not only to accomplish the task in front of me, but also to keep me safe, protected, and secure in His arms – a place where even if I fall, I have allowed Him to catch me and hold tightly. 

Where are you struggling? Is God asking you to stop struggling and just trust Him alone? Do you trust him to hold you? 

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10