Hand it Over

"Close your eyes, put it in the basket, hand it over to Him." A decade later my dad's words still stick in my head.

In the midst of struggling with a few relationships and graduation coming up in less than than two months, my mind was plagued with wrestling. When I was a child it was only the distractions from prayer I had to place in God's basket. Yet somehow now it was anxieties, desires, and doubts that needed to be handed over. Lord, I'm afraid, Lord, I want this, Lord, was that the right decision? For a while, I had forgotten the imaginative but tangible basket that contained the things I would put away and give to God. Only recently was I reminded that the things that eat away the peace of God are not meant to be held. Instead, they are to be handed over to Him, who like a good father, gladly takes a broken thing from a child to fix. We are not meant to carry such burdens of worry nor are we to "deal" with them. Despite what our pride may tell us, we can not. We are all children with a Father who is willing and wanting to bear our burdens. It is up to us, however, to hand it over to Him.

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

What things in your life are you refusing to hand over to God? What belongs to Him that you're holding on to? Part of walking with Jesus is taking off the heavy backpack filled with the world and handing it over to Him to carry.