There is a kind of exhaustion that comes not from doing too much but from reaching too hard — chasing things that keep moving, holding on to people who keep pulling away, trying to convince the wrong doors to open. It quietly teaches you that good things only come through striving. But what if that was never true? This is what God wants you to hear tonight before you spend another moment running after something that was always meant to come to you.

The right things won’t require you to convince them to stay.

– Jacqueline Whitney

God wants you to hear this tonight:

You do not need to chase what is already meant for you.

The right things won’t require you to convince them to stay. The right people won’t need you to prove your worth before they show up. The right opportunities won’t ask you to abandon yourself to receive them.

What is yours will find you. What is yours will choose you. What is yours will move toward you, not away from you.

The chasing has been exhausting you. It has been making you doubt yourself. It has been pulling you out of alignment with who you are. It has been teaching you that good things only come if you hold on to them tightly enough.

But that’s not how I designed it.

What is meant for you doesn’t need to be earned through striving. It needs to be received through trust. Stop chasing. Stop forcing. Stop trying to convince the wrong things to be the right ones.

Sit still. Stay open. Trust that what is yours is already on its way to you.

You don’t have to chase what was always going to find you anyway.

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.