How gracious He will be
When you cry for help!
As soon as He hears,
He will answer you.
Isaiah 30:19
As I was
writing this verse I was praying that God would hear and answer us because we
need help with so many things in our life right now. Then it hit me that I don’t need help with
many things, I need His help with EVERYTHING!
This is not a new concept, because I know that I need His help with
everything, but is that how I live?
Probably not.
Most of the
time I think I do what I know I can do on my own strength instead of asking Him
to do His work in me even with the things that come easier to me like cleaning
the house, making dinner, helping my kids with their school work, etc. But now I think of my life verse…
"Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches.
Those who
remain in Me,
and I in them,
will produce
much fruit.
For apart from
Me
you can do nothing.
John 15:5
The reason
this is my life verse is because several years ago He impressed on my heart
that I spent most of my life relying on my own strength and abilities to
accomplish things. He had been speaking
this verse to me and I was beginning to get it when I heard Cynthia Heald speak
and she talked about God speaking to her through this verse. What I remember hearing her say was that she realized
that she had been doing a whole lot of “nothing.” I want to remain in Him always and rely on
Him for everything. It is so tiresome to
keep working and striving on my own, or even to just do the things that come
easier for me but finding that when I take inventory of my life, those things
that count, those things that draw me closer to Him are the things I have
realized that I couldn’t do on m own and HAD to give to Him.
I want
EVERYTHING of me to be His! I don’t want
to settle for what I can do on my own.
That’s why I love I Corinthians 10:31
So whether
you eat or drink
or whatever you do,
do it all
for the glory
of God.
This is my banner.
This is the repeated theme of my life.
I must decrease, He must increase.
Nothing I can ever do in my own strength will be enough, but even the
mundane can be captured for His glory!
How amazing is that!! “Not from
overwork, but overflow,” was the life motto of some unknown saint I recently
read of. I work so hard to accomplish
what is before me, but I choose differently today. Not from overworking to accomplish what I
know must be done today, but from Him overflowing and working in me and through
me today I will accomplish what He wants in His power, for His glory. Amen!!
To God alone be the glory,
WP Stacey
“In Resurrection stillness there is Resurrection power.”
