Get a grip. Hold on. Hang tight. This is the best the world can offer when it comes to the twists and turns of life. But sometimes it seems no matter how sure we think our grip is, life has a way of proving that the only thing we are really holding onto is uncertainty. While we would love for life in this world to come with a guarantee, it just doesn’t! We were made to be secure but not according to how well we can hold on or hold things together. That’s a false sense that leads to defeat and exhaustion.
Security is written in God’s job description, not ours, and does not come from our ability to hold on but from God’s ability to hold us. Colossians 1:17 tells us that “in Him all things hold together”…that includes you! Now this is not the old, passive mindset of “just let go and let God” but rather the active attitude of trusting that He tells the truth and is able to carry you through, no matter what. Not only is it His job to hold you through any twist of life, it is His heart to use it for your good. The very situation that makes you feel as though you’re done, is exactly what God can use to show you all He has done and will do. You are actually growing in maturity as you learn to loosen your grip and recognize that He will never loosen His. The truth is that whatever situation you find yourself in today, God has got it and He has got you because you have got Him! He loves you and is always for you!
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?