Letting Go to God
Finally, during on-going pain, remember that vengeance belongs to God. God promises to avenge us, therefore by faith you must let things go. This is very hard to do, initially, but as you develop trust in God, you will be amazed at how He enables you to forgive, to the place that you no longer desire vengeance.
Let go, beloved. Let God keep score.
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One of the major obstacles to leaving Babylon is our love of her pleasures. Babylon is very clever. She knows she must continue to deceive mankind in order for us to stay within her walls and reject God’s truth.Therefore, she has become a master at soothing our flesh. She knows all too well how to keep us comfortable in our captivity.
God will and does give good gifts to His children and to the world, but as a good Father, He does not ruin us with pleasures that destroy our souls. He created this beautiful planet for us to live in and enjoy. He created us to have good and healthy relationships with Him and each other. When we speak of the “pleasures” of Babylon, we speak of the things that soothe and comfort us at the expense of our relationship with God, those things that are offered to us in exchange for our obedience to the Father. Such an exchange took place in the garden of Eden when Eve was offered the forbidden fruit in exchange for her allegiance to God.
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Why is God so committed to us leaving Babylon? Why does He remain with us through our countless mistakes to gather us out of her evil embrace? There is an ancient love story about God and mankind. It began with the radiant love of our Creator who spoke into existence our world and our race. We were created a race of beings for Him to love and care for, eternally. But the Creator had an enemy who hated all that the Creator cherished and loved. The enemy hated our race and sought to destroy it. The enemy succeeded in deceiving us through a lie, and he dragged us into captivity to Babylon. But the Creator, though brokenhearted, did not abandon us. His love for us was too deep to relinquish us to evil. We were His. Our world was His, and He would fight for us.
Leaving Babylon, The Wedding Ring (Pg.53)
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We hold so tightly to our things, our careers, our place in society, and even our families but miss going to the great places in God. Only His agenda will matter in the end. I implore you not to miss it! Quiet your heart and mind—listen, and He will speak His plans to you.
Christ wants to take you to the great places in Him; places where you no longer live in fear, in doubt, and in pride. It is place where peace rules. Christ’s disciples did not understand how He was taking them to the great places – it is usually the opposite of what we have learned in Babylon – it is a journey that requires faith in this life…
and into the next.
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It took David three months to understand how God wanted His presence ushered in before His people. How long is it taking you? How long is it taking you to understand that it’s all His: every person, every child, every wife, every husband, every object that exists in time and space is His! “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness…” (Psalm 24:1).
How foolish we can be to think that God will compromise His ways for us; that somehow we can take ownership of something or someone that has always been His. How comforting it is to know that He will not change. He did not change for King David (a man after His own heart) and He will not change for you or I. What better place for the world to lie than in God’s unchanging hands?
Rest!
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Loving is where the friends of Job missed the mark. They preached, they quoted the teachings of God, they analyzed Job’s situation but they failed to love him. We are commanded to speak the truth in love.
The awesome thing about love is that is transcends temporal emotions and moves into the eternal and the unconditional. The more I grow in God that more I am aware of how little I know about Loving. When I fail to love, He teaches and changes me toward His love; He is patient and kind – not giving me what I deserve but displaying to me what it is to truly lay down my life for another.
He look beyond all of my faults and saw…my Need. – Andre Crouch
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As much as your flesh desires to scream out the injustices done to you over and over again, resist it. Such behavior avails very little and often sets you back in your spiritual strength. You will keep going around and around, reliving the injustices and never progressing toward a place of peace in your spirit. This must be recognized as a device the enemy uses to keep your mind in turmoil and bondage.
Aren’t you tired of going around and around the same mountain? No progress in your spirit, mind, will and emotions. Still vulnerable year after year to the same fears, the same anger, and the same behaviors. Beloved, Jesus died so that you could overcome. He died so that you can stop going around the mountain and in His name…
conquer it!
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Remember, Jesus was totally God and totally human. If He did not or could not feel what we feel, what was the value of His suffering? He experienced what you and I experience when we hurt. He knows what it is to feel ashamed. Sessions in Pain Pg. 84
It was never God’s plan for us to experience pain and shame; these things came with the fracture of creation when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. The beauty that came out 
of all of this is that Christ joined us as we lived in this fractured creation. He allowed Himself to experience pain and shame so that we would know that He sympathizes with our weaknesses and will show us the way from sin.
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Our Lord will often take us down the road less traveled or the road not taken. As I look back today I am so grateful, once again, that He was so passionate for me as to set up the circumstances in my life so that I would choose His agenda. Session in Pain pg. 144
I have come to love the Road Less Traveled. I even look for it in most situations. It is the road where I am mostly likely to meet my Lord and find the treasures He has for me.
“They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts feel strangely warm as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:32 NLT
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As I recollect one of the greatest sorrows of my life in which I was betrayed by someone I dearly loved and trusted, I can vividly recall a voice in my spirit saying, “Now we’ll see what you really believe.”
Sessions in Pain pg. 48
You will do what you really believe, and not always what you say you believe. When your “fight or flight” reflex kicks in do you run back into Babylon or do you run to Christ? Your true belief will be tested in the fires of life. If you have failed this test (and we all have), take heart; His arms remain open to bring you to Real Belief.
Never leave you! 
Never forsake you!
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