TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON GOD

Isaiah 30:15(Message Bible)

”God, the Master, The Holy of Israel, has this solemn counsel: “Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down in complete dependence on me. The very thing you’ve been unwilling to do”

The Message Bible version of Isaiah 30:15, states beautifully, a timeless recipe for enjoying the best of God’s grace. It is total dependence on the abilities of God instead of our limited human strength.

Total dependence on God, is not a passive position of laziness. Rather, it is trusting in the abilities of God, to give you results beyond your human skills and depending on God’s strength to influence the outcome of your work, instead of your skills alone. 

Samuel reechoed the words of Isaiah in 1 Samuel 2:9, saying “…a man does not triumph by his own strength” (Good news Bible). This implies that human abilities is a limited source of strength compared to the grace of God. Strangely, in spite of this obvious fact, you and I still face the daily temptation of trusting in our human abilities. The bible describes such actions as “silly efforts” to save yourself.

However, depending on the grace of God does not exclude you from being diligent in your work. Instead, grace empowers you to be diligent. It makes you settle on the finished work of Christ as the basis for your success. To receive the strength of God, you must put an end to trying to figure out things. Worrying and anxiety distract your heart from receiving from the flow of grace.

                                                                     

Beloved, you must believe in the sufficiency of God’s strength. That means you must accept that grace is sufficient to cater for all your righteous needs. The pressure from the problems in your marriage or business or even your academic is not greater than the power of God. Grace can only be experienced at the point of rest. So take God at His word, He cannot lie.

Food for thought: “…by strength shall no man prevail”(1 Sam. 2:9). “Thus saith the Lord; cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord”(Jere. 17:5).

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