GOD-DEPENDENCE
Our
hopelessness and our helplessness are no barrier to (God’s) work. Indeed our utter incapacity is often the prop
He delights to use for His next act… We are facing one of the principles of
Yahweh's modus operandi. When His people
are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks –
then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins we will
understand how we may be encouraged.
1 Samuel, Christian Focus Publications, 1988,
p. 16.
If we think
we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant… Such thinking ignores the
depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am
just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent
on Him.
Edward T. Welch
When People are Big and God is Small, P&R
Publishing, 1997, p. 100. Used by Permission.
If only for a
moment, take your eyes off yourself and your circumstances, off the ways of
this world and all rival claimants, and look at who God is. Ponder His mighty
deeds. This isn’t to say your soul or circumstances aren’t important. It simply
means that you are in the hands of an omnipotent God whose ability to act on
your behalf is equaled only by His passionate affection for you as His child,
whose strength is without end and whose sovereignty covers the expanse of the
heavens. God’s desire isn’t to minimize your life and struggles and
disappointments. His intent is for you to gain hope, knowing that nothing can
wrench you from the loving arms of a God like this!
Sam Storms
One Thing, Christian Focus, © Enjoying God Ministries, 2004, p.100. www.enjoyinggodministries.com.
Used by Permission.