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.
Pride can get in the way because pride has no place in the relationship between you and God. To pride, you can always add envy, vanity, greed, lust, selfishness and bitterness.
In sports they say it’s not whether you fall or fail, it’s what you do after you fall and fail. Time and again we fall. Time and again we fail. It’s part of the game 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 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 on a crowded playground.
There is a singularity to hearing God’s Word. He is specific in what He says to you as opposed to what He says to me. That singularity becomes a plurality as we begin to understand His message, if not His words, are intended to have the same effect on each of us. It’s like an optical illusion. Once you finally see it, you can’t from that point on, not see it.
The saved make the sincere effort. It’s not always successful. But it’s always there. The key is to build upon the successes one success at a time and 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.
