Is it really possible to put your life in the hands of the Lord?
The obstacles in the way of making an honest effort to embrace and step to God are at times huge and obvious. At other times they are so subtle they’re practically indiscernible.
For example, pride can get in the way because pride has no place in the relationship between you and God. Truth be told, pride has no place in your relationships with your fellow man either.
To pride, you can always add envy, vanity, greed, lust, selfishness and bitterness as impediments to an honest attempt to let God order your steps in His Word.
In sports they say it’s not whether you fall or fail, it’s what you do after you fall and fail, because you’re definitely going to do both. Time and again we fall. Time and again we fail. It’s part of the reality of life, also necessary parts of the Christian experience.
What do you do next? Is it possible in the context of your reality to get up, dust yourself off and try again to put your life in God’s hands?
Many of us want to hold onto our own abilities to solve our own problems, cure our own ills (sinful natures) and figure our way out of impossible circumstances by ourselves. We routinely pass judgment, think and act as if we’re better than others and give God no credit for the many blessings we do have.
Now let’s see you make the effort. Let go and let God. Submit first, and then see what God has to say about your situation. Without this submission, I don’t think any of us is in a position to first hear and then listen to the Word of God.
Y’all know I believe Satan shouts and God whispers. If you’ve ever been whispered to when you think the person speaking is saying something important, then you know your capacity to shut the world up and out. You can be anywhere and hear a whisper, just like a parent who can hear their child’s voice in a sea of young faces on a crowded playground.
The key is to build upon the successes of putting things in the hands of God. Take it one success at a time. Do not, I repeat do not, dwell on the failures one failure at a time. Therein lies the answer to my original question. You can do it, and God expects it to be done, one step, one day and one situation at a time.
“So then dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with Him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation.”2 Peter 3:14-15.
