I Hate Static Electricity...

Have you ever had a small piece of plastic wrap that got stuck to your skin. As you try to put it down it continues to stick to you? It can even become frustrating, not the plastic itself but the lack of control and the inability to put it down. 

I sometimes have this problems with my struggles, sorrows, and sins. I will take them and place them at the feet of Jesus. Sometimes, it seems like they end up back on me. I begin to feel defeated or frustrated. Occasionally, I will question my amount of faith saying, "If I really believed that I gave it over to Christ, why am I still struggling?" 

It does become easier. Like anything else, it takes practice. You have to place it there and as soon as you pick it up you have to place it right back. I do this with worries. I will be worried about my children and I will pray that God protect them and give me strength, peace, and faith. Still after a little time I end up worried again. The longer I hold on to the worry, the more difficult it is for me to put back down. I think my flesh is holding on to the things that I know in my spirit only God can control. 

It is like playing a game of hot potato with God. The longer I hold the hot potato the more it burns me.  I need to keep tossing it to God and letting Him provide for me. When I pick it back up, I need to toss it immediately back into His hands. 

There is a beautiful song about laying sorrows at His feet as the place you find joy. 

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."

1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

Psalm 142:1-2 "I cry aloud to the Lord;

               I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. 
²                I pour out before him my complaint; 
               before him I tell my trouble.

Do you pick back up the things you lay at His feet? How can He show you love, peace, and grace?