Leave It with God

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Perched high on the climbing wall, Sarah could feel panic rising as her weakening fingers began losing grip on the handholds. Just how hard will I hit the ground? she wondered.

But the instructor kept calling out assurances from below. As the “belayer” tethered to the other end of the rope tied to Sarah’s harness through a pulley, his weight would hold her if she fell. “I’m much heavier than you!” he yelled. “Just let go.”

So she did—and simply swung away from the wall to dangle safely in the air.

The incident gave Sarah a new perspective of the picture of God in Psalm 18:2: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock . . . my stronghold.” Sarah observed, “God is so much heavier than all my problems. I can let go of my worries and fears, and He’ll catch me.”

King David sang the words of Psalm 18 after God rescued him from “deep waters”—these were his “powerful enemy” looking to bring about his “day of . . . disaster” (vv. 16-18). Even if his troubles didn’t disappear, he knew he could trust his all-powerful Savior and that God was holding on to him tightly.

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0:00.0	The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer. My God is my rock in whom I take refuge.
0:08.2	Psalm 18, verse 2.
0:12.0	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:16.6	Leave it with God was written by Leslie Coe and read by Stephen Tabor.
0:22.4	Psalm 18, verses 1 and 2 and 16 through 19.
0:27.3	I love you, Lord, my strength.
0:30.9	The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
0:35.2	My God is my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
0:41.7	my stronghold. And now picking up at verse 16. He reached down from on high and took hold of me.
0:50.3	He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
0:59.2	They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support.
1:04.6	He brought me out into a spacious place.
1:07.7	He rescued me because he delighted in me.
1:17.8	Leave it with God, written by Leslie Coe.
1:24.2	Perched high on the climbing wall, Sarah could feel panic rising as her weakening fingers began losing grip on the handholds. Just how hard will I hit the ground,
1:28.5	she wondered. But the instructor kept calling out assurances from below. As the belayer, tethered to the
1:35.4	other end of the rope tied to Sarah's harness through a pulley, his weight would hold her if she fell.
1:40.8	I'm much heavier than you, he yelled. Just let go. So, she did, and simply swung away from the wall
1:48.1	to dangle safely in the air. The incident gave Sarah a new perspective of the picture of God in
1:54.6	Psalm 182. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer, my God is my rock, my stronghold.
2:04.1	Sarah observed, God is so much heavier than all my problems.
2:08.2	I can let go of my worries and fears, and he'll catch me.
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