Letting Go

Scripture  

Philippians 3:7–14 (NRSV)  

Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.  

More than that, I regard everything as loss  

because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  

For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things,  

and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ...  

Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal;  

but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own.  

Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own;  

but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind  

and straining forward to what lies ahead,  

I press on toward the goal for the prize  

of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

Refrain  

I let go, and I fall into grace.

Quote  

The Cloud of Unknowing  

“Lift up your heart to God with a gentle stirring of love,  

and mean God Himself, and not what you get out of it.  

Do this and nothing more:  

cover the naked intent with a cloud of forgetting—  

forget everything else.  

Let it be enough to simply rest in God,  

not grasping, not reaching,  

but being.”  

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