When You Rely On Your Own Strength And Not God’s… DO NOT DO IT!
Choose To Live Life With God!
Have you ever tried moving house furniture on your own?
I mean the old school, real heavy wooden beds and TV cabinets. Did you motivate yourself thinking you could complete the task alone and move on to the next task on your to-do list by a specific time?
How did that go for you?
I can only imagine the first attempt after mentally playing out a blueprint for how you were going to push the furniture from one side to the other, that you felt your body go nowhere, and realized that you, completing this task alone, would be more challenging than you expected. About 15 minutes into trying to move the same piece of furniture, you start to question why you would even attempt such a task alone. You’re exhausted at this point, IF you did get to move ANYTHING, and begin to question life itself.
Because I have been in this same position as you, trying to complete something alone on my own efforts, only to be exhausted and question my own abilities (ALL because I could not wait for my husband’s next day off to do what I needed done. And that I thought I could handle on my own) led me to this very message that I received in the moment of a chaotic moving process.
Life was not meant for you to live alone. Life was not meant for you to do everything on your own merit and “strength”, but made to live completely and fully under the care of your Heavenly Father.
I will send you the Helper from the Father. The Helper is the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father. When he comes, he will tell about me. And you will tell people about me too, because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 15:26-27
As you acknowledge your place and role as a daughter to the Most High, you will see that life does not have to be as challenging as you make it out to be. I mean, I’m talking about those challenges of facing vulnerability, reliability, trust, healing, motivation, weaknesses, and any other challenge that has placed God as a back-seat driver, and not the driver Himself, while you ride shotgun in the passenger seat. When you see God our Heavenly Father for who He is in your life, and declare Him Lord of your life, only then will you not just see, but you will want to praise God that you are weak. I say weak, because He makes Himself known through strength in our weakness.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9–10
When you know who He is, you will only want to trust Him with your life and run to Him to be your helper in all things. You would want to be vulnerable and share every part of your life with him, knowing that He already knows everything, but you still share because you know that you have a Daddy who wants your time and attention, which is no bother to Him. Through knowing Him, you also get an insight into comfort, healing, reliability, and life itself. You don’t have to have a blueprint for your life and feel depleted trying to make every effort on your own to make it right. You have a life partner by your side who will walk with you through all the plans He has laid out for you on your path. Shielding you in every direction.
Do not get caught up in burnout trying to do everything on your own efforts and strength, because again, there will be that burnout moment where you question why you started doing the things that you began to do in the first place. (Which, for a lot of people, is where they sadly give up.) No, let that not be you. From where you’re today, make the next step that you take, be a step walking with God along the journey or task you’re about to undertake.
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6
And let me be clear to add this, I am not saying that you can not take risk or have plans for your life. No, in fact it is written,
The Lord’s Answer
Then the Lord replied:
“Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.Habakkuk 2:2-3
I share this message to say, do not live life alone, being guided by only your thoughts, plans, and efforts. Talk to your, Heavenly Father, whose ways are better than yours, and make your plans align with His as you choose Him to direct your path.
If you get anything from this, just leave with: Choose not to live life alone, but to live life with Him. Praise God in your weakness because the strength that shows up in you is Him making Himself known, and making Himself known to you that He chose to live life with you.
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God. ’Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
John 6:35-40 & 43-51
Scriptures
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:29–31
I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:9-10
