Life is not easy. But God doesn’t hold back until you make that one right move. Once you say the right words, accepting your fate, your world will not all of a sudden become what you’ve always dreamed. It’s not a fairy tale.
Maybe life’s like a lab-rat maze constructed to have you bumping into dead ends needlessly until – miracle of miracles! – you discover the end. Maybe it’s like one key and a thousand different locks on a thousand different doors; only one amongst them is the right door leading to your life and your life can’t begin until you find the right lock.
However you see life, the answer is right in front of our faces, and yet some – many – most – refuse to see it ; or they are so blinded by sweet lies and alluring falsehoods of the world and flesh that they’re not willing to give in; to surrender their pride and let God be God.
Yeah, life can seem like those thousand locks and thousand doors. It can feel like you’re in that maze of experiments, hoping, praying, to finally make the right turn and find blessed relief in escape.
It isn’t about you. Stop trying to find the magic phrase to get God to switch your life to a fantastic, worry-free snow globe. Stop shoving that key into lock after lock, moving from door to door. Stop wandering around the maze and surrender to Him. There are too many false exits to know which is the right one.
What do I mean by letting God be God? Simply this: that so many of us – I’d dare to say all, and know I’m correct – believe we are the ones to discover our meaning in life; our trick in this world of trades; our one chosen profession standing out in a sea of similitude. But, my dear friend… It. Is. Not. About. You.
Did not God create the universe? And what about man, beast, seen and unseen? Yes, we have a purpose. I’d venture to say John Piper hit it dead on, as did C.J. Mahaney, as did C.S. Lewis, as well as Francis Schaffer, when they all agreed that God’s glory should be the sole focus of our existence.
How incredible is this freedom! How beautiful is this bliss!
This doesn’t go to say that we are to sit back and let God do all the work. To “let go and let God” is to follow Him, not kick back in a lounge chair and watch Him!
To follow is an action verb, is it not? How many times did Jesus say to the disciples, did the disciples reiterate to other believers, to follow?? To be a Christian, to serve, follow, and glorify God, is not an easy task! All those who have denied their flesh, their sinful, human nature, know this – or should!
It’s the ultimate of struggles, the hardest of uphill climbs, the one decision to save your life, and ironically, kill yourself at the same time. Complex, but, oh, so simple.
As for searching for our lives, to let God be God is to give Him the reins, the pen, the control. Stop worrying. Let go of your anxiety. No, it isn’t easy. What, in life, is even worth having in the long run, if it was attained easily? Be honest. Everything God stands for, has created us to stand for, is absolutely, without the slightest doubt, extremely difficult.
At first.
No, I don’t know approximately how long the average Christian has to endure the struggle of constantly giving it over to Jesus. What I do know is that it is worth it.
I’m not through the woods yet. I don’t believe I ever will be. But I know that once I get the hang of giving my all to my God, worshipping Him with abandon, and glorifying His pure existence with my own, I can be utterly free. I know that giving up the hardest decisions of your life to His hands, praying with every fiber of your being, fasting in defiance to your body’s desires and in deference to your soul’s needs, and searching the Word of God with a hungry, Spirit-driven lust, can be the ultimate experience of your life.
I’ve given God the one key to the one lock of a thousand, to the one door of a thousand. I’ve slipped my hand into His and I’m following Him through the maze as he leads me – through anything that comes. I will let Him open the door when it is time – His time.
And, boy, oh boy, I can’t wait to see what’s inside. 
