I’m the type of person that hates wasting anything. I will squeeze the bottle and scrape the jar just to make sure I have used it all. One time I cut a bottle open just so I could scrape out everything inside. Extreme I know. I just hate throwing stuff away when I know I could get a little more use out of it.

I’m like this even at work. The kids love to break up their good erasers and throw the pieces across the Learning Center. So I go around collecting what seems like a ton of these pieces of eraser – off the floor and through confiscation. If I think they are big enough and could still be used then I keep them; but keep in mind they are still little.

I was at my desk one day having to utilize an eraser on a students work book. Due to me not wasting, I was using one of the little pieces of eraser. It was so tiny inbetween my fingers; no matter how I held it in my hand, my fingers would rub on the paper. It was still working but it was so hard to handle now. It was still doing what it was suppose to do but it hurt to use it. The more I used this little, tiny eraser, the smaller it got which in turn was making my fingers rub even more on the paper. This continued action began to cause a burning sensation to my fingers that was becoming more intense by the second.

After a while of this nonsince going on, something just came over me. A feeling that was telling me, “Just let it go! It’s hurting you! You have a bigger, better eraser in the drawer that you can use and it’s not gonna hurt you!” How silly was I? Holding on to something that was hurting me! Yes, it could still do the job but I had a better one waiting for me. To get the better I had to let go of the lesser.

God wants the best for us. Sometimes though we are not willing to follow His lead and we hang on to what we think is best. All along we are only causing damage to ourselves. He is longing for submissiveness from us to let go of what He is trying to handle for us. He does not need us to tell Him how to do it. He needs us to let Him have the reigns and say, “Okay, I give up. You take control God! You can do it better than I.” When we let go of something for God, He will replace that void with something better. He will not leave us empty handed. Trust His transitioning!