let go

There comes a single moment when you go bungy jumping where you have to make a decision. You either let go of everything and take the plunge, praying to God that the cord will hold, or you give up and turn around and step off the platform. 

Let go or give up. That's what the decision boils down to. 

Let go. Trust that there will be something to catch you. Believe that the outcome is worth the test. Have Faith in something outside of yourself. 

Give up. The risk isn't worth it. The potential danger or pain is too much to bear. There has to be something better than this.

I hate giving up, even if that is my natural inclination. When things start to get tough, I long to throw my hands up and give up, to move past this point with the thought that there has to be something better down the road. And I'm not saying that there isn't a place and time to give something up. 

But letting go requires so much more of me because letting go isn't giving up on what is in front of me, but rather trusting that God will use what is in front of me to conform me ever more into His image for His glory. And that's what I'm here for, to bring glory to God, right? Letting go takes so much more courage than giving up. Letting go is a call to endure when I can't see the outcome.

Giving up is walking away. Letting go is pressing in. 

As I struggle with unanswered questions in my life, I am faced with this same question. Do I give up and walk away? Or do I let go and take the plunge, hoping, trusting, believing, and praying that God will be there to catch me?