The Audacity to Let Go (June 6, 2025)

There’s a grace in growth that doesn’t always shout. It doesn’t always announce itself with promotions, new addresses, or applause. Sometimes, grace looks like quiet transformation. Like choosing not to prove anything. Like remembering how far you’ve come.

I’ve been sitting with that lately—not where I’m going, but where I came from. And the truth? I’ve come a long way.

Today’s scripture—Mark 8:35—hit different:

“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.”

What a paradox. What a promise.

This isn’t just about martyrdom or sacrifice in the traditional sense. It’s about Sabbath—the obedience of rest. A holy stillness that confronts ego and pride. That illusion of control we cling to—over time, outcomes, even people. Sabbath says, you don’t have to carry it all. Rest becomes a spiritual discipline, a refusal to strive where God has already gone before.

What if part of God’s grace is practical application—believing for outcomes that seem unreasonable to the world? Trusting divine timing even when your plan had a prettier timeline? What if audacity, in its highest form, isn’t arrogance but alignment? A deep, holy leaning into God’s footsteps with nothing but faith to steady you.

I don’t know who needs to hear this—but you’re not behind. You’re being paced. There’s a difference. Let God set the tempo.

So today, I pause not to ask for more, but to thank God for all He’s already done.

Thank you, God, for the journey—for every mile walked in grace, every tear sown in faith, every moment where I didn’t know how but still moved forward.

We’ve come far. And by Your will, we shall go further.

Amen.