Even when we come to faith in Christ, we still
often hesitate to relinquish to Him the power over our existence. We have a
lifetime of experience with people letting us down, disappointing us and
breaking their promises and commitments to us.
Therefore, we mistrust God as well. We have an
overwhelming need to understand God, before we agree to believe in Him.
We use human wisdom for all of our decisions, and we collect
friends around us that agree with our life view. We have such a strong compulsion to control our own life and everything
that happens in it, that we dare not rely on anyone but our own self.
People feel safe somehow in trusting only in that which they can prove, and
believing only in that which makes sense to their human mind.
Added to our human reasoning is Satan’s perfected
art of deception. He often draws us away from following after God by his
fraudulent schemes.
Add to this our own lusts and the powerful
temptations from living life in the world, and it is amazing that anyone ever
actually chooses to surrender their life completely to God.
Our sin nature doomed us to failure since birth;
but Jesus Christ set us free from sin and death by His crucifixion,
resurrection and ascension (Romans 8:2).
Only the Spirit of God can break down our walls of fear and mistrust and
allow us to fully embrace a relationship that starts with our total submission
to God through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Prayer:
Father God, eventually Your Spirit leads us to the point in our life where we step over this
boundary of fear into the freedom of faith and we completely trust in You. Your
Spirit enables us to shun evil and honor You with all of our thoughts and
actions.
You are always faithful to reward us with health
and abundance in every area of our life. We learn to trust in You with all of
our heart, rather than relying on our own strength and understanding (Proverbs
3:5-6). We want to honor You with our life now and until the day of our death.
Thought for the Day:
As we seek God's will for every minute of every day, He removes the ruts and bumps in our road (Proverbs 3:7-8), until we eventually learn to give Him every fear and insecurity that plague our life, because we come to understand that He really does care about us (1 Peter 5:7).
As we seek God's will for every minute of every day, He removes the ruts and bumps in our road (Proverbs 3:7-8), until we eventually learn to give Him every fear and insecurity that plague our life, because we come to understand that He really does care about us (1 Peter 5:7).
