Let Go and Let God Depends on His Righteousness

"Let Go and Let God".

I heard this phrase so often in the meetings, yet something inside of me just would not "let go".

Then again, since members of Alcoholics Anonymous spend so much time looking at themselves, how can one expect God to look out for them?

A God of my understanding will expect me to behave, or I will not receive a goods from Him.

The New Covenant is not based on a God whom we have to barter with in order to get anything:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

First of all, God writes His laws in our hearts, which speaks to our very core being. He also places our laws in our minds. How does He do this? By the power of the Holy Spirit:

"But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." (Matthew 10: 19-20)

and

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 16: 26)

and

"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. . .  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. " (1 John 2: 20, 27)

The Holy Spirit lives within every believer, not only granting him knowledge of God's will, but also the inner witness that we are now the children of God, brought into His family:

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

"And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8: 15-17)

This same Holy Spirit teaches us all things about Jesus Christ, who is our life and our source of all blessings (John 15: 26).

The key element that turns us from  alienated and distant from God to fully blessed, favored and loved is the enforcing element of the New Covenant: righteousness.

"I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more."

God will not remember our sins because He has remembered all of our sins and the sins of the entire world in the Body of Son:

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Peter 2: 24)

Therefore, when we know and believe in the love of God, which has put away all of our sins, then we can trust that He will be God to us, taking care of all our needs. This grace is given to us at an ultimate price: the death of His Son for all our sins, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5: 21).

However, as long as we continue taking our inventory, as long as we insist on working away our sins with "Twelve Step" work, we inadvertently frustrate the grace of God in our lives because our actions indicate that we do not believe that He will remember our sins no more.

If we want to let go and let God, then first we must let go of all our sins once and for all, resting in the truth that Jesus has paid for it all. Then we can rest assured that through the righteousness accounted to us, that God will take care of everything in our lives, and even take the bad and turn it to our good.