Letting go

"So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet." James 4: 1-10 (Msg) 

What's the No. 1 fall producing feeling?

I suggest it's that we desire what everyone else has. We're not satisfied with what we have. And we, whether we admit it or not, we have so very much. Compared to most of the rest of the world, we are RICH. If you've got a roof over your head, of any kind, you eat at least once a day, and you have some change in your pocket, you are doing better than a lot of people in the world who have nothing to call their own.

But we see other folks stuff, and we want it. That's what coveting is, wanting what somebody else has. 

And people will sometimes do anything to get those things. We kill, and we covet, and we quarrel and fight, as James says, but still can't have what we want. The circles goes on and on, over and over, round and round. We want, we covet, we quarrel, we fight, we're not happy with what we get, so we want more and more and more and more.

The real problem is that our desires are completely without question or doubt messed up. 

We want what we want and nothing else. Certainly not what God wants.

The strange thing is we get better by admitting how little we can fix this thing on our own. Fix ourselves on our own.

The answer is to let God work his will in us. Let him purify us. Hit bottom and cry our eyes out.

Scriptures tell us to give all our worries to him.

Jesus said Come to him all who labor and are heavy laden and we would get rest.

Paul told us to not worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. ... Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we could understand.

I learned a long time ago that the best I can hope for, the best I can do is let go and let God be God.

But I suspect that might be outside some of our perception.