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Wouldn’t it be an interesting prospect that after you messed something up you were able to hit a “reset” button and start over? Think about this for a minute. Think of your life’s biggest failures and mistakes and the chance to take all the experience from that flop and start over. Wouldn’t that be nice? However, life does not work this way and if it did how many times would we abuse the ability to do over everything. I know I would have never had the opportunity to live with my mistakes and trust God for the grace to endure them. God does not grant us a reset button per se, but grants us grace (“the chance after chance after chance method”) that allows us to fully rely and trust in his provision and not our own. Supplying our own provision prevents what God desires from us the most…total dependence on him. I look at the progress that I have made in the last 18 months of my spiritual walk with the Lord and I think about how I cheat myself constantly by wavering in my trust of Him. His way and his plan are perfect so what causes me to doubt? What is this element of my being causing this? Why do I want to do it my way? Well the Bible clearly tells me that in my flesh dwells no good thing (see Romans 7:18). Absolutely no good thing! Which means that I have to totally rely on the Spirit (of God) to supply me with any good! So whenever I find myself relying on my own power or my own fruition to make things happen I find myself not relying on God. There is no “in-between”. I can choose to fully trust him or not. I can choose to realize that I have divine insulation from the woes of this recessional economy, or I will begin to worry just like the next person. I can choose to believe that I am running the show or that He is running the show. Which will you choose? Which will I choose? The sooner I accept that there can only be one in control, then the better off I will be. It becomes easier to be in perfect peace with His peace that passes all understanding (see Philippians 4:7). I do not have a miracle cure for any problems, no one does. However, it can be the ultimate comfort to rely on the One that knows all about my wants and needs (before I have them) and his ability to supply them above and beyond my expectations. First, I have to relax in Him and know that he is God the Sovereign of the Universe. There is no one equal to him nor will there ever be. Next, I have to realize that he loves me so much that he sent his only Son to reveal a portion of his nature to me so that I can believe on him and have life everlasting. Finally, I must let him reveal his nature to me. This happens by just getting to know him better through reading about him and talking to him. As I grow in my relationship with him and learn his character I will trust him more because of who he is and not worry about what he will (or can) do for me so much. If I can do this I will have no need to hit the reset button.

"Today's Little Lift" from Jim Bullington

Mercy and not Sacrifice (Sept. 30, 2010)