6.16.11

Isaiah 30:15 (The Message)"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—

My Thoughts

We are so often strongest just after we "give up." That is because when we give up and decide we can't do it we finally turn things over to God. Just think how much more effective we could be if we turned things over to God in the beginning when we still have energy! In this translations of the Bible God calls our efforts to save ourselves silly. That is because God sees the big picture... God is our strength and God knows this... he is looking down watching our wheels turning as we stay put in one place. God is  just waiting on us to ask for his help the He can put His hand on our back and give us that nudge we need to move forward.  We in our own effort have to work really hard to do what God can do with just a nudge.  We are only in control of us... God is in control of us and all that is around us. I picture it like this... from the ground (our view..our ability) we come in contact with a tank...we push and push... that tank is huge...and heavy and we can't budge it.  From above... (God's view and ability) it is like a child playing with army men...he can make anything happen he just moves that tank out of the way so the solider can accomplish what needs to be accomplished. When I stop and in-vision it like this I see that my efforts are so silly in comparison to God's ability and it makes me want to just give it all to God...now the hard part....I need to not take it back so I feel in control...after all I am not in control at all of the world around me. God can only have my back if I give him my everything.