2 Reasons Why to Let Go

Letting go is never easy! Many of us feel that letting go is a painful act. We are forced most of the time to let go against our will. This process of letting go can sometimes makes us bitter, or even angry at God.

So why do we have to let go?

First, God asks us to let go of things that is not good for our physical and spiritual health. Most of us sinners are holding the very things that will destroy us. We are like junkies who think drugs are good for us. We all have destructive addictions. It may be substance addiction like drugs or alcohol. It could be worldly addictions like sex, stuff or money. It can be fame and power which our egos are addicted to. Now there is nothing evil with them as it is. But to make them the center of our life, now that is a problem. Alcohol in itself is not a problem, being a drunkard is!

That being said, God as a Good Father does not like seeing His children destroying themselves. So He asks us to let go of this things. He asks us to let go of this destructive vices not to be a “kill joy” but because He is a “give joy”. God is not a dictator but a loving Father.

A drug addict is not a picture of a human being fully alive. He is a picture of a slave. Saint Irenaeus said “The Glory of God is a man fully alive.”

God wants us to let go because He wants us to be free for our sinful addictions that would lead to our destruction, in this life and in the next. “It was for freedom that Christ set us free” - Galatians 5:1

Jesus said “What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, would give him a snake instead of the fish?” Most of us are holding a snake and we do not know it. The Father is asking us to let go of the snake so He can give the fish.

Second reason, He wants to give us something/someone better. Sometimes we cling to good thing for too long. This is a lot harder than the first. We often ask God why he would want us to let go of something good. It is good right? We often say “Why can I keep it God?” or “What is wrong with you God? Why do you take all that is good in my life?”

We are like little children. There is a party waiting for us outside, and we do want to go out because we don’t want to let go of the TV and the video game. And at the end of the day we missed out the joy of the party and the gifts that come along with it. All because we held on too long and did not let go.

I know letting go is not easy. I am a person who lost the house I am living in twice. I have let go of two jobs with much uncertainty about my finances. And I have to let go of a lot of good things which I have come to love through the years. Was it painful? Yes. Some of them has brought me tears. But looking back, everything I have to let go helped me to understand a lot about life and myself. The process of letting go continually makes me a better person.

It is painful to let go. But holding on to the wrong things or holding them for too long can make us miss life.

- daxx