Give your worst to the master
You may know the old hymn that begins by saying "Give your best to the Master, nothing else worthy of His love." It is a wonderful memory and an important one. God deserves our best that we can give him. But when we think about it, God not only wants our best - he also asks us to do our worst.
In 1. Petrus 5,7 we are told: cast all your worries on him; because he cares for you. Jesus knows that we are not always in the best of shape. Even if we've been Christians for years, we still have worries and problems. We still make mistakes. We still sin. Even if we sing a song like Do your best to Master, we end up giving our worst to God.
We can all identify with the words of the Apostle Paul in the seventh chapter of Romans: “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me” (Romans 7:7,18-20).
We all want to give God our best, but in the end, we give him our worst. And that's precisely the point. God knows our sins and our failures, and he has forgiven us everything in Jesus Christ. He wants us to know that he loves us and cares for us. Jesus tells us: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Mt 11,28)Give God your worries—you don't need them. Give God your fears. Give Him your dread, your anger, your hatred, your bitterness, your disappointment, even your sins. We don't need to carry the burden of these things, and God doesn't want us to keep them. We must surrender them to God because He wants to take them away from us, and He is the only one who can properly dispose of them. Give God all your bad habits. Give Him all your resentment, all your immoral thoughts, all your addictive behaviors. Give Him all your sins and all your guilt.
Why? Because God has already paid for it. It's his and by the way, it's not good for us to keep them. So we have to let go of our worst and hand over everything to God. Give all your guilt to God, all the negative things that we should not carry according to God's will. He loves you and he wants to take it out of your hands. Allow him to have everything.
You will not regret it.
by Joseph Tkach
