Be Clingy

As I was brushing my teeth the other night, I sensed the Lord say “Just watch him.”  Our 6 year old has been somewhat clingy to me lately. Sure enough, as I was brushing my teeth, he walked in and sat on the bathroom floor right beside me. We were in the living room and I did not announce that I was leaving the room. Daylen simply noticed and followed me. Every morning, somehow he knows when I am up and I can count on him to get up and sit with me. The Lord is teaching me through Daylen. He wants me to cling to Him just like Daylen clings to me.

I am Daylen’s safe place right now. He is never too far from me. If I do get out of his sight, he will call out for me. I pray as he gets older that he will be dependent upon God the way he is dependent upon me now. I believe God wants us to constantly cling to Him. To constantly depend on Him. If that’s called being clingy, then so be it!

 The Message version of Psalm 63:8 says “I hold on to you for dear life, and you hold me steady as a post.”

 The thing is though; I cannot cling to Jesus and cling to everything else at the same time.

At the Women of Joy conference a couple years ago, God gave me a vision. Jeremy Camp was there singing “Oh no, you never let go.” I was worshipping with my eyes closed and suddenly I saw Jesus and myself. I had my back turned to Him holding several different boxes. In one box I saw my children, in another was my husband. A different box contained homeschooling. Another box contained different worries and fears. I was really struggling trying to hold all of these boxes and I knew that eventually I was going to have to let go. In that moment, Jesus whispered to me “You can let go, because I will never let go.” So immediately I dropped all the boxes and turned into His chest like a scared child clings to her daddy. Jesus wrapped His arms around me. Not only was He holding me, but He was also holding all those different boxes as well.

What relief! What peace! What a Savior! To cast all my care on Him because He cares for me.

God knew I needed Him to show me this. Somehow I had forgotten that He is completely able to handle everything. I was trying to carry it all on my own and was failing miserably. Trust Him enough to let go of it all and hold onto Him.

I must let go of everything else and cling to Him. I can trust Him to hold me and everything around me, because “In Him all things hold together.”

So with Jesus it’s ok to be clingy. It’s ok to let go and cling to Him for dear life because He will never let go!