I CAN’T DO IT ON MY OWN
One of the greatest truths I have ever learned and am learning is, I CAN’T DO THIS BY MYSELF!!
How many of us, and how many times have we got caught up in trying and trying only to find out when we run out of steam that, WE CAN’T DO THIS ON OUR OWN??
It’s one of the hardest lessons to learn, yet one of the greatest!
That’s because it applies to nearly every part of our lives.
We just love to DO it ourselves, because then WE can take the credit for it!!
God talks about “THE REST OF GOD” and hardly any of us have any idea what HIS rest is that He says we can enter. [Heb. 4:1-11]
It’s when we began to learn to trust in Him instead of ourselves; to learn that He knows best and is only waiting for us to turn it over to Him that’s when we can enter His rest:
There are some things that God can’t do and one of them is, “going against our will”; however He can allow things to come to us that will “change our will”
Isn’t that great?? He loves us enough to wait for our mind to change so He can help us!! I don’t think I have that kind of patience;
{I pulled this out of a devotional I get daily by Purpose Driven}
by Jon Walker Devotional for Wed. Feb. 6,2008 Purpose driven life
“Hi! I got your note saying you didn’t think you could do what God is telling you to do.
You may be surprised to hear me say this, but I agree! If God called you to do it, then you shouldn’t be able to do it without him. In fact, if you could do it without him, then it’s really not a God-thing.
I know you’re feeling others could do it better, but what we think doesn’t really matter, does it? God’s mind on the matter – what he thinks – that’s the reality, the Gospel truth we live by. (Colossians 3:3)”
The fact is, God didn’t call other people to this task. He called you!
And he called you in spite of your weaknesses, doubts, and insecurities. In truth, your weaknesses are no surprise to God. You may try to hide them from others, but you can’t hide them from God. He created you; he created you with weaknesses (do you think he made a mistake with you?); he created you with weaknesses in order to keep you on your knees before him.
With you on your knees, dependent upon God, you are able to do all things through him who strengthens you. (Philippians 4:13-14)
Besides, if you’re like me, without these weaknesses to push you back to God, you’ll just get prideful. Wasn’t it our big brother Paul who said, “Now I take limitations in stride …. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.” (2 Corinthians 12:10 MSG)
This is why God won’t allow you to use your weaknesses as an excuse for avoiding your mission or ignoring your purpose. Like the preachers say, “Where God guides, he provides.” If God is calling you to a monumental task, then he’ll equip you to complete the task –and that equipping includes the Holy Spirit working from inside you.
Be confident in this, “he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6 NIV)
What does this mean?
God’s strength flows into your weaknesses – Where you are weak, you become God-strong. “My strength comes into its own in your weakness ….” (2 Cor. 12:9 MSG)
· God’s strength is your focus – Don’t think about how incapable you are for the task. See how immensely capable God is to work through you. As the Veggie Tales character Junior Asparagus sings, “God is bigger than the bogeyman.” He’s bigger than anything you face, no matter how overwhelming it may appear to you. “It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness … and so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.” (2 Cor. 12:9-10 MSG)
· God created you to do good works – “For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)
God bless, Sister Billie
