Let Go to Grab Hold

If you grip tightly the things in your life that you have gained of your own ability, they will keep you from grabbing hold of what God has in store for you.  Even holding onto the things God has provided for you can prevent you from following God.

While the Jews wandered the desert for 40 years God provided food that could not be kept overnight to reinforce the idea that they should be dependent on God.  The manna was a good thing.  It was from God, therefore it had to be good, but it was not the point.  God didn't provide a quickly perishing food because he couldn't have given them something that lasted.  He did it purposefully.  

He was the sustenance!  He is the goal!  He is the point of creation!  Not your comfortableness.  Not your superficial satisfaction.

Don't hold on to things.  Hold on to God!