Still, It Is Really Hard to Let God

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday.

It is really hard to let go of our concerns to God. There is so much in our bodies which press us to do something in the face of our hardships.

Still. . .

All God asks us to is -- trust Him.

That is really hard.

We are not just sensate creatures, we are creatures of habit and business.

Instead of resting, we want to work.

For years, I had believed that if I do not do anything, then nothing will be done.

Yet such thinking is truly nonsense, if we accept the inspired Word of God as true. God created the heavens and the earth in five days (five is the number of grace). On the sixth day, God created then animals, and then He made man, so that He could enjoy everything that God made, so that everything would be prepared for him and not hurt him, and also so that man would not take any credit for everything which God has done:

"26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis 1: 26)

and then

"And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." (Genesis 2: 15)

In this verse, God's Covenant name is listed for us, so that we can see that God saw Himself not just providing man a place and a profession, but profession that He will keep the man in all things, too.

The very sin which brought down Adam, and the sin which infects all man today, started with Adam and Eve believing that they had to do something in order to be like God, when He had already made them in their image.

To this day, even Christians (and I was one of them) still believe that they have to add something to what Jesus has done at the Cross, as though He did not Finish the Work.

Yet just as God the Father had given Adam authority over all things, God has granted the same to His Son, and thus to all of us:

"Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." (Ephesians 1: 20-23)

and then

"4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" (Ephesians 2: 4-6)

Because of what Jesus did at the Cross, we are not just restored to Adam's first position, but now have a greater dominion in Christ, where God the Father sees us in His Son:

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

So, the only reason why it is so hard to let God is that we do not realize that God has done everything and let all things fall at our feet through Christ.

For this reason, Paul prayed for us to receive  a growing revelation of God's love for us (Ephesians 3: 16-19) and Peter also prayed:

"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." (2 Peter 3: 18)