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The Tangled Fishing Line

July 11th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

A young man said the following while writing to his father about an upsetting personal problem he was going through.

“Dad, yesterday I put this whole matter into the Lord’s hands and asked Him to help me. At times like this I often think of when I was a little boy and you and I would go fishing. Remember how I would get my fishing line all tangled up? Finally, I would hand the whole tangled mess over to you, and you would smooth it out. I am trying to learn to do that with the Lord now — turn my problems over to Him and not pull at the line too much before I give it to Him.”

Impossibilities! Difficulties! How tangled some of our problems become when we attempt to solve them ourselves. Moreover, it seems as if the knots of difficulty become tighter as we continue to struggle through them in our own strength.

Therefore, instead of using our finite human knowledge and abilities, we need to rely on God’s infinite insight and power.

Proverbs 3:5 (AMP)

⁵Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

Simply stated, when we are wrestling with a problem that looks too complicated for it to ever work out, we need to do what the young man above did. Through faith and trust, we must turn the entire situation over to our loving Heavenly Father.

Psalm 37:5 (AMP)

⁵Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.

If we trust our problems to God, He can untangle the knotty impossibilities that are troubling us.

To summarize, when our problems are too much for us to handle, we need to allow God to untangle them by handing them over to Him immediately — knowing that with Him all things are possible.