Powerless...

Do you ever feel that way? I certainly do, especially in this storm I currently find myself in...I feel like there's nothing I can do, and nothing that can be done at all to fix it, or make it right. I was reminded last night though, that I'm right about part of that. There is NOTHING that I can do about the situation. Not on my own anyway. If I rely on myself, things will surely continue to fall apart.

On the flip side of that though...if I rely on my faith in the Lord, and remember that He is sovereign in all things, I will come out better for it on the other side. I went to terranova last night (terranova is this sweet church in g-town, you should check it out Terranova), and the message that God had laid on Kyle's hear was one I really needed to hear. He spent some time in 2 Corinthians 12:8-10, and verse 9 is a verse we alllll know, but it spoke to me last night in a way that kind of told me "Hey listen up for a second dummy". Paul is talking about having this thing in his life that is hindering his relationship with the lord, and he begs him three times to take it away, and He says to Paul

"My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness."

It's one of those things where I was so wrapped up in myself and what was going on, telling myself "Yeah, rely on the Lord and everything will be fine." Buuuuut...He knew I didn't really mean it. It was kind of like a lite little slap in the face and He was telling me "No no hey, you really need to understand and do that."

It's not easy, because it's not our nature. Our nature is to take care of things ourselves. Our nature SHOULD be to rely on God, and then to take care of things as He guides. My prayer for myself is that I would work on doing this more and more, so that I can continue to fall more and more in love with God because of who He is.


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