A mailbox, some call it a post box, or a letter box, is a common box used to receive letters for delivery. The red flag on a mailbox is called the “carrier signal flag”. Raise it when you put outgoing mail in for your letter carrier to pick up.
There are letters that I need to write. There are some letters that I have written that need to be mailed. Those un-mailed letters will not do me or anyone else any good until I let go of them and mail them. They will not reach their destination until I release them. They will not reach the addressee until I drop the envelope into the mailbox and raise the red flag up for the postman to retrieve them for delivery.
When we address a letter, send a card, or mail a package, there is a process. We will take it to the Post Office, or drop it in the local postal drop box, or put it in our mailbox, for our local postal carrier to mail it for us. A postal carrier collects the mail from the box, along with the rest of the mail, and takes it to the post office. There, all of the mail is placed on a truck and taken to a mail processing plant. From the bins, the mail is sorted into trays by zip code and flown or trucked to the next processing plant. The mail or package is taken to the individual post offices, and the carrier loads the trays into their individual vehicles for final delivery.
This is how "faith" works, related to our prayer request to God. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Your letter will never reach the addressee, until it’s delivered. You have to trust the postman to deliver your mail. God is the Addressee and your letters are those things that are troubling you. Those burdens, your concerns, those problems, stress, anxiety, worry, mistrust, misunderstanding, are your letters. We have to trust God with everything, and I do mean, all things. Holding on to it, or them, is not helping us. It’s hurting us. We have to let go and let God. How do we do that? We do that by faith.
True faith will allow us to drop the letter (problems and/or concerns) in the mailbox or the post office (God) and let go of it. Distrust holds on to it. By holding on to it and not taking it to the Father, means that we have placed the situation or problem in our own hands and not Gods’. When we allow our faith to kick-in, we will hand our case over to God and He works it out for us. “Rest in the lord, and wait patiently for him…” (Psalm 37:7). How can God work on our behalf until we commit to Him? Faith is receiving, or better yet, presenting it to Him, for Him to either accept it or reject it. God will always present an offer to us, and it will be what’s best for us.
Our God is waiting for us to pour out our hearts to him. Go ahead, write your concerns and burdens down and mail your letter.
We just need to come before him to believe, release, commit, and rest. Believe, by faith and exercising your faith. Release, by coming before Him in prayer. Commit, by casting all your cares on Him. Rest, knowing that there is nothing impossible for God.
Now, let’s exercise our faith, by dropping our cares and concerns in God’s mailbox, with the correct postage (faith). There is no need for a return address label, God knows exactly what address to reply to.