Silly Woman That I Am

The Lord has been barraging me lately with the reality that everything, absolutely everything that I accomplish in this life is because he allows it to happen.  I consider myself to be an intelligent person, and I love to figure out problems and puzzles.  Here is what God told me today as I was getting a hug from my dad for helping him with something.  God told me when you succeed it's because I make sure that you can.  When you are able to figure anything out in this life it's because I whispered it in your ear and placed the tools in your hands.  No matter how hard I try to figure something out I won't unless God tells me, and sometimes no matter how I try to block out his voice and ignore his plane spoken wisdom to me I will understand certain things because he wants me to.  This is not to say that my efforts are worthless, but if I am straining to do anything it shouldn't overtake my efforts to hear from the Lord what he has for me.  I wouldn't be able to put one thought together if it weren't for the grace of God.  It's this reality that has touched my heart to be grateful when I am able to do anything positive.  It is the gift of God to ME that I am able to help anyone or say something right or write a single meaningful word.  When I even start to think that I can do anything it all falls apart. If you see me doing anything right, just stop and see the wonders of God because it sure isn't me.  Isn't God good to work through even the least capable of us and than allow us to be a part of his wonderful works.  When you look around at your accomplishments remember that without God we couldn't do one thing right.  All glory belongs to God.  We are his witnesses and if we don't speak up as character witnesses of God we have corrupted our purpose.  Glorify God and he will lift you up.  I was a silly woman to think that I was acheiving anything on my own, but I smile about it now and say "Lord look at what you did.  That's so cool. Thank you for sharing this with me."  Lacrae said it well when he said that he was just stardust pointing to the superstar.

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