Let It Go

 

Let it Go.

 

It’s easy to sing about it. The trouble is it’s much harder to do.

 

For many of us we can tend to wrap ourselves in a covering of past pains and wounds. If the hurt has gone deep enough it can all too easily become who we are, how we define ourselves. It clings to us like a skin. The thing we feared becomes the thing we fear to lose, and so we end up hanging on to hurt. We don’t want to lose anything of what we are, and so we grasp hold of even the stuff that really stops us being fulfilled and who we really are.

 

The chrysalis can feel comforting. It’s familiar and enwraps us. It might even make us feel warm and protected. But the problem is that it’s not what you were made to be. It may be part of a painful stage you need to go through, but it’s not your end-state. Being stuck at this stage means you are not yet fulfilled or fulfilling your ultimate purpose.

 

There is another form awaiting you, where you become the multi-faceted butterfly, free and life-enhancing, God-glorifying and the you that you were created to be.

 

I can sit here and say ‘let it go’, but I know it’s not that easy. This isn’t ‘snap-out-of-it-land’ or ‘pull-yourself-together-ville’. It may be that you need someone to draw alongside you and help. Does your hurt define you? Does it rule you and convince you to settle for less? It’s never God’s plan that you should be less than he created you to be.

 

For now consider this verse.

 

Jesus said “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10).

 

Don’t settle for less, don’t settle in the hurt. Pray, find those who can come alongside, and seek to let it go.

 

And let the colour of you really fly.