I once had a young minister in my office that I was seeking to lead into the LIFE that Jesus wants us all to experience… I asked him to turn to a particular passage, and he could not find it. As he searched frantically, he blamed the Bible I had handed him, saying he was not used to that Bible. What was the issue here? He was embarrassed that he as a pastor could not find the passage quick enough. Naturally, I sought to lead him into an understanding that God was trying to reveal to him, in that moment, how influenced he was by the fall of man into rebellion against God.
HIS THOUGHT PROCESS WAS THAT HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND IT QUICKER --- HE SHOULD KNOW WHERE THAT PASSAGE WAS!!!
Remember what the lie was that we were all birthed under? “You shall be as God!” Oh, what a horrid thing… I have to be strong! I have to be in control! I have to know all things! Oh my goodness, do you realize the burden that is on us because of that lie? We have to be like God, when we lack the resources to be God! This is a lie!
WE WERE NEVER CREATED TO BE STRONG, WE WERE CREATED TO BE DEPENDENT ON THE ONE WHO IS STRONG!
We were not designed to be in control, we were designed to be dependent on the One Who is in control. And we were never supposed to know everything, we were supposed to be dependent on the One Who knows all things. We were designed to be children, who have a really great Father!
Take yourself off the treadmill of having to be like God, that is way too much pressure for anyone to live under. Decide to be what you were created to be… a weak human being, who doesn’t know very much at all, but oh, what a God you have… He offers to be all that He is, to all that you need at the moment of faith.
