Let It Go!

These days, I find myself being overwhelmed with the circumstances. My wife is in her trimester stage of her pregnancy, and she hates kitchen during these days. No matter what I bring to her, that does not really change her interest. My niece is sick due to typhoid. My nephew’s wife and his daughter are hospitalized since a long time. And I have to be involved with my work which demands my time and engagements. At the same time, we are starting our third phase of discipleship training from next Sunday onward.

I think it is important to check ourselves in the light of the word of God when we go through a tough season of life.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6)

What if our prayer life looks like a confusing list to God! It is not that God is not concerned with our questions. But it is important for our mental and spiritual health to make sure we understand who is in-charge and why. Sometime our prayer life looks a little more like trying to bend God to get Him into our box. Prayer designs that our hearts to be lined in God’s plan and into His box. That’s why Apostle Paul says ‘with thanksgiving, present your request to God.” We might say we have tried it. But is it with thanksgiving?  We see anxiety presses us that we know exactly where our life supposed to go. When we find the life is not going the way we want, we create a distance between our ideal of life and the reality of life. And this distance is always directly proportional to our anxiety level. When you pray with thanksgiving, it changes things. When we pray with thanksgiving, what we are really doing we are acknowledging that I am not fit to run my own life and He knows all the possible details of life. If what I am asking is the best of my interest, the loving God would not deny that. If it is not, He will make sure that I would be away from the supply for the best of my life.