"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Isaiah 41:10

As I look over the last year of nursing school I see how true this verse really is. God will give us the strength. He will help us. He will hold our hand and walk through the trials with us! How truly wonderful is this? I see it in so many other areas in my life as well. But every time I come up against something hard I tend to forget this verse. I tend to cling to my own strength and so many times it fails. This morning as I was getting ready to go take my final at school I realized that I was trying to cling to my own strength and not clinging to God's hand and relying on His strength. I realized I was too scared to let go of school and place it in God's hand. If I completely give it over to Him then I have absolutely no control and who knows what God will do with it once He has complete control. It took all the strength I had left in my body to open my hands and to give Him control! Control is something I struggle with daily and I was pondering this I had to ask myself what else am I holding on to? What else am I not allowing God to have control of? My boyfriend? My family? My dreams? My life? Along with control comes fear. They seem to come hand in hand. I want to cling to Isaiah 41:10 as I continue to walk through this struggle of control!

Lord, thankyou for breaking me. Thankyou for showing me areas that I hold tightly to. Help me to daily open my hands and surrender. Lord, help each one of us to surrender and not fear. Help us to cling to You and Your strength.