Dear Friend,

In the simple, short phrase, "Let God be God," lies the wisdom of the ages. Then let's be wise.

Let God write your rules, and gladly live by what He has written. Let God guide your steps, and follow the path He marks out with childlike trust.

Let God determine your life's calling, and pursue that vocation, and not another, with single-minded determination. Let God choose your spouse, and love her (or him) as a precious gift from His loving heart. Let God give you children, and accept with love and joy the little individuals He places in your sacred trust for a season.

Let God set your boundaries, and don't press beyond them to your confusion. Let God dictate the way of your salvation, as He did to Nicodemus long ago (John 3), and don't try to forge another way. Let God teach you His ethics, and live by them, not without them. Let God's values be your values, and don't value what He devalues or devalue what He values.

Let God's Word be the last word in every issue, settling matters with no further dispute or discussion. Let God's presence satisfy you, and seek ultimate joy in no other relationship, experience, or possession. Let God's precisely timed checks prompt you to stop and wait and pray ... until His new prompt is clear and confirmed in your mind. Let's God's love-inspired discipline have a positive impact on you, so your character may be changed into the image of His Son.

Let God's Holy Spirit, whom Christ personally appointed to help you, assist you every day in every situation with every responsibility and with every challenge. Let God be the One to whom you come immediately, by prayer, in faith, the moment troubles or needs arise, and then go forward, relying wholly on Him, in His peace that passes our understanding. Let God determine your station in life, and desire neither a higher nor lower place than the one He personally chooses for you in your present season of training or service. Let God, your greatest Friend, choose your friends, and willingly let go of those who refuse to be His friends.

Let knowing God and fulfilling His will be your goal in life, and don't be deceived and led astray by seeking the false goals of wealth, pleasure, and power. Let God's authorities be your authorities, and respect all those to whom He has delegated authority over your life for your good. Let God teach, and instill in you, His faithfulness, and steadily choose to be dutiful, reliable, and trustworthy, whether in prosperity, adversity, or great adversity.

Let God's fear - the purifying, peace-giving awe of God - descend upon and fill your heart, and under that powerful covering of unbreachable security enjoy freedom from all human fears the rest of your days. Let God's Word, the Bible, settle once and for all the big questions of our beginning and our end, and trust that you do not need to know what He has not revealed - but need to believe and obey what He has revealed.

Let God's call to praise and worship evoke an obedient response from you, and begin offering Him thanksgiving in every circumstance and praise and worship songs every day. Let God's sovereign will rule, and your self-will bow, when the two clash in your mind, knowing His will is always better and wiser and beneficial to all, while yours is often small-hearted, self-serving, and oblivious to others' needs.

Let God's call to step out in faith to minister, once confirmed, be so sure that, in your mind, it is more reliable than the most secure move human reason could design, because His unerring wisdom is guiding, His unfailing faithfulness is supporting, and His undefeatable power is protecting all who live by faith.

And finally, let His Son's unmistakable promise, "I will come again," and all the signs that confirm that joyous event is drawing closer every day, give you a blessed, purifying, stabilizing, and overcoming hope in these dark, unstable, and increasingly hopeless times.

These are just some of the ways we may "let God be God!

Fully Surrendered to Him,

Greg Hinnant
Greg Hinnant Ministries