Your Way Will Fail

Are you at a point in life where you’re done looking to the world for answers? Do you feel like you’ve come to the end of your rope? Is the situation you’re facing just feeling like too much, and you don’t know where to turn or how you will ever overcome this? I’ve come to different points in my life, different seasons, and have felt just like this. The natural humanness fields that we can do it ourselves like that John Wayne mentality of pull up your bootstraps and do it doesn’t work. In my power and my might, I have found that I fall unbelievably short of the Fulfillment and peace or even overcoming some of life’s obstacles because I try to do it in my way.

What if we genuinely believed that Jesus is the real answer to everything? That the reason he came to this earth is so that we could have life and have it abundantly. What if we believe that old Hindi song that says Love Lifted Me when nothing else could help. So I decided to search this for myself. I started asking God how I could have a real transformation in my life, and like always, he brought me right back to his word. And what is his word? Well, it’s the Bible. The Bible says that Jesus became flesh, or the word became flesh and dwelt Among Us.

All through the Bible, the underlying story is that we were created to have a relationship with God. The Bible has a great deal to say about this and what it means to walk humbly with your maker. That’s the whole reason that love came down to rescue us. You can find that example in 1st John 2: 3-6: ³We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. ⁴Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. ⁵But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: ⁶Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

Now, none of us does this perfectly. Only Jesus was the one who was able to submit fully to the anointing of the Holy Spirit and live the perfect life because he was fully God and fully man. He always spoke correctly, saying precisely what he was supposed to say what the father told him to say. He always went exactly where the spirit was leading him. He always reacted the way he was supposed to respond. I want more of that in my life; how about you? See, the reality is as we walk in the light of God’s word, we will get to a point where we make fewer mistakes, and we end up reflecting more of Christ in our everyday encounters.

There are several characters in the Bible that I can relate to. I think God did that purposely to see the uses of imperfect people to serve and have a relationship with a perfect God. Each character is placed in our view to learn from them and better understand the heart of God.

My story, in many ways, lines up with a man named David. David walked with God, and this didn’t mean that everything he did was perfect, you’ll want to proofread his story, or check out his prayers in the Book Of Psalms. God loved David, and David loved and believed and trusted God with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength, and because of this, God says that David was a man after God’s Own Heart. David gave his life to God and acted in the faith of who God revealed to David that he was. David, as I said, was far from perfect like you and me. I get to moments in my life when I do not do or react the way I’m not supposed to. Even Paul wrote about this in the Book of Romans 7:16: I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.

That’s where guilt and shame overtake me some days. I feel like a failure, and how could God love me. Sometimes we need to realize or be reminded that God loves us, and he wants well for us, and he isn’t sitting there condemning us for everything little wrong thing we do. His heart is less pain! His heart is less stress! His heart is for us to have no condemnation. He wants us to have that freedom in our life. The character of God truly is love. When David repented for the things he has done wrong, God forgave him, restored his relationships, and fixed things. Ultimately the things that are in the Bible God tells us not to do, and it’s not because he doesn’t want to be a cosmic killjoy. No, it’s because he wants us to have an abundant life, and the reality is some choices that we make can be costly. The highest price I tend to pay is that I don’t forgive myself, and maybe like me, you need to hear this truth.

Psalm 3:3-6: ³But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. ⁴I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain. ⁵I lie down and sleep; I wake again because the Lord sustains me. ⁶I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side.

Just like David, I haven’t always had the most comfortable life, but I also believe the scriptures that say, God, he works all things together for good for those of us that believe. I believe that God is my shield, and I believe that God will protect me, but more than all of that, he grounds my feet, and he lifts my head high because he loves me.

I recently went to a revival, and this was the word whispered into the depths of my soul when I went to the altar. I just realized I could never cry out to my father too much about everything I am facing because he never called me to carry the weight of this world, the cares of this world on my own, NEVER! Like David, I got to bring my everyday request to him, my burdens, my anxieties, my hurts, my habits, and I just got to lay them down at the altar. I got to cast my cares on him, and I got to cry out loud and guess what the Lord he answers me from his Holy Hill, and he hears my prayers, and he cares. There is no problem too big or too small that I can’t take to my God. No matter how far you may feel from Christ or how bad you feel like you’ve blown it, the reality is the God of the universe loves you, and despite your situation, God wants you to lift your head. God’s word says in Matthew 11: 28-30: ²⁸Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

I am not sure what road you have walked, what rough waters you have faced, but what I do know is when I got to the point that I surrendered it all to him and asked him into my pain, into my situation that I got the strength I never had before. I got the understanding that he would never leave me or forsake me. By inviting him in and believing the Bible has the power to work in my life, I got this sense of peace. Do you need peace in your life, in your situation? Then invite the Prince of Peace into your life. That’s why David was able to say, “I lay down and sleep. I wake again because the Lord sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.” Despite all the troubles he seems to have a deep peace, look at it this way like a lake where there may be rough waters on the surface, but the deeper down you go into that living water, there is a great stillness, and that comes from God and God Alone and if you have unconfessed sin in your life. I will tell you right now; it’s the biggest thing that steals your peace.

Today my prayer for you is that you will understand that Jesus ultimately paid the perfect price in full to save you, and by the power of his name and his earthly example, we now can have victory in EVERY area of our own life. That he wants to lift you by love, and he wants to take you out of the Raging seas around you and fill you with his hope, his peace, and his Fulfillment.

I pray that for the remainder of 2020, you would get an understanding that he helps you walk through your daily life, and he can help you do that in peace if you surrender yourself to him. We no longer have to hang our heads in shame, weighted down, and living in sin. We can have victory, healing, and forgiveness, and then you like me will feel the Lord tell you that we can hold our heads high trusting in Him knowing that if we apply all we learn from his word, then we have all we need in Him for every day ahead.

Author: The Holy Spirit
Editor: JJ Michael Smith

God bless,
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