Monday's Blessing
Jeremiah 2:13
"My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.”
Get out of the driver's seat!
Are you moaning, contemplating why your life has gone awry? Have you prayed, tried everything possible and things are still not going right?
THEN
Get out of the driver's seat!
What is bothering you right now? Is it a child, a loved one, a spouse, a friend? Have you tried to work your magic, being a good Christian, and things are still not panning out? Then let go! No one asked you to do this to begin with? These are all needs of the flesh. These are selfish things we want to happen to take away our own anxiety. To take away our own feelings of hopelessness.
The Word teaches that God's people dug wells for themselves that couldn't hold water. I certainly know what it is like to work hard with no results. I spent many a year digging empty wells like these, and I can tell you, it really wears you out. Plus, no one asked me to do it. I felt it was my duty as a good Christian to keep hounding and plodding along.
You may be digging that empty well right now. You may be trying to help someone that just can't seem to get it together. Or, you may have your own little project going on that isn't panning out. But, it just isn't going to work out until you give God the steering wheel. God wants us to pray first and ask Him for His plan. Not make our own plan and ask for his help. See the difference? You're going no where if you itemized your own plan. You're not following what he wants. You are setting your own agenda and building a broken cistern.
Our own needs prevent God from showing Himself in our lives. The Bible describes that kind of activity as "works of the flesh" (Gal.5:19-21). They should be called works that don't work. That is not the avenue God wants us to take. Change the plan. Learn to wait. Put God first.
This Week's Meditation:
Teach me to "give you the wheel and wait for the map."
Pray:
Help me to meditate: on letting things go and placing them in your hands.
Teach me to be patient and know my blessings will come.
Remind me that I need your help first.
Meditate on this for several minutes a day. Allow various thoughts to come into your mind. And realize God has you in his arms always.
Jeremiah 2:13
"My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.”
Get out of the driver's seat!
Are you moaning, contemplating why your life has gone awry? Have you prayed, tried everything possible and things are still not going right?
THEN
Get out of the driver's seat!
What is bothering you right now? Is it a child, a loved one, a spouse, a friend? Have you tried to work your magic, being a good Christian, and things are still not panning out? Then let go! No one asked you to do this to begin with? These are all needs of the flesh. These are selfish things we want to happen to take away our own anxiety. To take away our own feelings of hopelessness.
The Word teaches that God's people dug wells for themselves that couldn't hold water. I certainly know what it is like to work hard with no results. I spent many a year digging empty wells like these, and I can tell you, it really wears you out. Plus, no one asked me to do it. I felt it was my duty as a good Christian to keep hounding and plodding along.
You may be digging that empty well right now. You may be trying to help someone that just can't seem to get it together. Or, you may have your own little project going on that isn't panning out. But, it just isn't going to work out until you give God the steering wheel. God wants us to pray first and ask Him for His plan. Not make our own plan and ask for his help. See the difference? You're going no where if you itemized your own plan. You're not following what he wants. You are setting your own agenda and building a broken cistern.
Our own needs prevent God from showing Himself in our lives. The Bible describes that kind of activity as "works of the flesh" (Gal.5:19-21). They should be called works that don't work. That is not the avenue God wants us to take. Change the plan. Learn to wait. Put God first.
This Week's Meditation:
Teach me to "give you the wheel and wait for the map."
Pray:
Help me to meditate: on letting things go and placing them in your hands.
Teach me to be patient and know my blessings will come.
Remind me that I need your help first.
Meditate on this for several minutes a day. Allow various thoughts to come into your mind. And realize God has you in his arms always.
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