"Drop It"
Watching a Hallmark movie tonight, an idea kept reoccurring. The synopsis was that a teenage girl is present for a tragic accident involving her neighbor's baby. This teenage girl grows up to be a young career person, still harboring the guilt of the accident, even though it wasn't her fault. She winds up with leukemia, and somehow believes in her mind that she deserves it. Karma. She spends most of the movie refusing to tell anyone about her sickness, and instead remains partially detached and partially in a state of trying to make amends with neighbor. Both of the families were effected by the tragic death of this child. While the parents were suffering their loss, this young lady was also suffering a loss which in turn affected her parents and their relationship. Throughout the movie, members from both families used the phrase "just let it go".
Interesting, that phrase. We use it all the time. We hear it constantly. If you let something go, you could just picture yourself dropping it and it falling to the ground. Ok, so let's think about that. You have a plastic cup in your hand, and you are told to just let it go. That cup doesn't mean all that much to you, it's not that pricy or anything, just drop it. So you drop it. It falls to the ground, or in the trash, or wherever you think to put it. But if you think about it, that cup never really goes away. It affects the ground, a passerby, a garbage man, or an animal. And that's just something you didn't really care about. Now imagine a porcelain tea cup, hand painted by your great great grandmother. It's been saved for generations and passed on, but now it has a chip in it and not worth any money, and you really don't have the space for it. Somebody says to just drop it. If and when you "just drop it", it's going to stay in your mind. It's not just going away. You'll wonder if it got smashed in the road, if someone else picked it up and decided to use it, or even if someone did end up making some money off of it by putting it in a museum or antique shop. Whatever the case may be, large or small matters matter. In a world like the one we live in today, people want to brush things off and just drop it, but that's not exactly in our nature.
Here's the best part! What if we have the chance to take that porcelain tea cup to someone who knows how to fix it, restore it and adore it?! What if we can take that plastic cup to a recycling company or to someone who could use the material for something else?! Wouldn't we feel so much better about that thing that we were told to just drop? Jesus Christ said "Come to me, all who are weak and heavy burdened and I will give you rest". Christ knew that we were going to experience hard times in this life; whether they were major or minor, he knew they were coming. Rather than telling us to just "drop it", forget about it, or get over it, he said that he would come alongside and help us carry it. He would be the place we could take our problems, worries, and issues to and work them out for good. You see, it's easier to place something into capable hands rather than to just drop it and wonder what could happen. This is the assurance that we have in Christ when we go to him in our times of need. He is willing and able to take our needs and not drop them, but care for them and use them for good!
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