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- If I could
do it all myself, I wouldn't need to lean on Him, would I?
There will not be a time in this
life when the Lord will allow me to feel adequate or fully prepared,
or to foresee the most snarley surprises. But that is only because
He loves me.
The point is not to make me a little
independent source of Life - the point is to train me to put
all my weight on Him and to have my gaze fixed on Him
so that it is unbroken.
- He did not
create us to have the ability to deal with worry, fear, lust,
loneliness, or anger. Yet, in spite of the clear and repeated
call in the Bible, countless Christians are running to counselors
and self-help books to try to absorb these things into a control
system.
Listen. . .
He did not intend that we should
"deal" with our pasts. He does not want the old nature
analyzed and placated.
He wants a living sacrifice through
whom He can love with Heaven's Love, and through whom the Glory
of the Lord can pour out because that believer needs
to be held in the cleft of the Rock.
Because He loves us, He created
us so that there can be no well-being until there is a willingness
to be totally dependent.
- Remember
this old song?
- Precious
Lord, take my hand,
- Lead
me on, let me stand:
- I am
tired, I am weak,
- I
am worn.
- Through
the storm, through the night,
Lead me on, to the Light.
Take my hand , precious Lord,
- Lead
me home.
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