Let God Be God

"Let God be God" I heard someone say a few days ago. It resonates with such strength! "Let God be God" gives us the permission to let go of so much...to deliver ourselves from the responsibility of being more/knowing more than we ever could---even if we wanted to. It takes away the need to ask "WHY" or "WHEN" or "IF". How many times I have tried to be master, or to assume and authority over others that just cannot and should not be! Maybe God knows better? NO! DEFINITELY God knows better. "Let God be God."



One of the favorite "get to know you" questions in my circle of friends is, "If you had only a week/a month/ a year to live, what would you do?" We have only a short time on earth, relative to the eternities. Adrienne will be off to college in four short years--graduating and on her own in just 8. If you have a 2 year old, in that same time s/he will be starting the 5th grade. It doesn't seem like very long....especially considering Adrienne will be expected to have a job, and apartment, responsibilities and maybe even a family! (This from my 14 year old upstairs still SLEEPING, who hates to do laundry or clean or anything domestic really....) As a parent I can see my just blooming daughter under her covers and say, "On her own? In only 8 years??!!" But I know she will get there. I think of Heavenly Father and how He looks down at us. Does He think in the same way, in the same measure? Does He muse, "They have to find faith, and charity and truth and ACT on these things and become as Christ in some measure. And ON THEIR OWN? In only 80 years?" Our time here is measured, but our judgement is certain. Some of us are already well cut into those 70 or 80 years. How will we spend our time, our days?


The culture of the earth invites us everyday to change our perception of right. It invites us to excuse ourselves over and over with redefinition of what our priorities should be--what "best foot" do we need to put forward. What FOOT is that? Is it accomplishment, wealth, a well-manicured lawn, a respectful occupation or one that just sounds impressive? Is our best foot GIVING, or our measure of how uncomfortable we have been making others comfortable? Is our best foot what we TEACH? How I personally feel the pressure of trying to find my best foot, while even further trying to find the time to ACTUALLY PUT IT FORTH!

Josh Biggins said once, "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."

And so, these are my words of wisdom for today: Success in life depends on how each of us negotiates the internal and external factors that enhance or constrain our abilities to reach our full potentials. The measure of our character is how we build on our strengths to transcend our limitations over our lifetimes. Not that we can CHANGE or eliminate all our weaknesses, but that we can become more by rising above them. I will always have limitations. I have many physical limitations, and so many more emotional and intellectual ones. I do not believe God intends for me to abandon my formed talents to remedy all my weaknesses, but I do think He desires me to use what I have been given, and unite with those that support my constraints and ACT anyway. Never wait until you are perfected to apply, I imagine Him saying to me. Don't shut the door to your blessings because you're embarrassed by what you offer.

Give your life chasing after the best of your potential and in the interim God will offer you the hope it can be done, and the people around you to catch you when you fall. Just as He is, will you one-day be, yes, But for TODAY,

Let God Be God, and just try.

(thanks Clay!)