Just Ask
Well it is Saturday morning and I just gone done writing the Eulogy for my step father. He is still alive but he has just a very short time left.There are so many things we face in life everyday, and sometimes we just deal with them on our own strength. I am starting to realize no matter how big or small the issue we are facing we need to lean on God and his wisdom.For so many years in my life I have struggled with sin and just different issues. I never completly trusted God. Maybe I didn’t want to trust God because i knew it would cause me to live differently? I am not sure. As i face this new mountain in my life i have found myself closer to God then I have ever been. A wise man once said ( Pastor Hughes)” that situations like this either bring you closed to God or put you furture away from him.” I look at this situation and wonder. About? Well things… But in Gods infinite wisdom he has put me in a place where I have learned to trust him and rely on him.As Americans we want to be so independent. We want to do everything by ourselves because we think this may make us a greater person. As if we will try to handle a situation without God and He would look down and say “well would you look at that, he actually did it by himself. I am so proud of him…” Of course not, life isn’t meant to be lived alone or without God. We need to have God has the center of our lives.I think to many times we have God in our lives, but maybe just with finances, or maybe with our marriage. But when it comes to anything else we may have the tendency to do it by ourselves. God isn’t a Kindergarten teacher looking down on us and saying “come on you can do it all by your self” ; he is looking at us saying I want to help you, just ask… so I want to encourage you to just ask…. just ask…. just ask.
That’s kind of funny, what you said about God going “well would you look at that, he actually did it by himself. I am so proud of him…” One morning, I was kind of hit by the fact that God really isn’t impressed with us, with the way we pray or the way we quote scripture. It really changed the way I do things in Church.
Very true Karl. I find myself more and more in positions where I so need God and even very recently through situations in my own life I realized how content and comfortable I had grown, how often I tended to accomplish things on my own. For me, anyway, it’s kind of a clue that I need to take a step, to move myself out of my apathy to a place where I do have to just ask God to be with me, to guide me, to strengthen me, etc. To truly make him LORD of my life.