Corrie ten Boom talked about trusting God vs.trying. I find that my
trying does not get results, it’s my trusting. If I’m trying to live a
Christian life than I’m living my life in the flesh (my own will power) and it becomes a struggle and a battle.
Part of the problem with the holiness teaching is they preach more on our trying to please God than trusting God. It’s very focused on what we do rather than God fulfilling his promises in our lives. I heard one minister say, “Don’t preach against sin preach the cure.”
I like that quote on that movie, “Cobra” by Sylvester Stallone where he tells the criminal, “You are the disease and I’m the cure.” Only we got the disease (sin) and God has the cure (Grace).
For the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17
Corrie ten Boom held up her Bible to God and read God his own promises. “God your word says this.” One could say that Corrie was bold in her faith. She got out of a German concentration camp during the reign of Hitler since her father and she were hiding Jews in their house because of a clerical error or she would have gone to the gas chamber.
I’ve had some divorced women tell me that even after seven years they don’t want to get remarried, because it’s too much work. That is because we can be like Sarah and Abraham and try to put something together in the flesh in a relationship, or we can put our trust in God that he will put it together.
That does not mean we don’t lift a finger. I have to give God something to work with as a co-laborer in Christ. The widow gave God her last two coins, when Elijah came to a widow, she gave her last oil and cake, the boy gave Jesus his two fish and five loaves of bread, and Peter let Jesus use his boat. God takes a little like us and can make it a lot.
It’s not only giving God our resources –but it’s giving God our hearts. The rich young ruler walked away sorrowful because his heart trusted in riches, not in
God.
Those who trust in the Lord
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. Psalm 125:1
Greed causes fighting; trusting the Lord leads to prosperity. Proverbs 28:25
God has “prepared” for us his goodness of what we need in this life. Sometimes there is disparity of waiting on God as far as I was sexually ready to move on after I lost my husband in six months, but I was not emotionally ready. Same experience I had when I was divorced. I learned to give into my spirit to wait and not my physical drive. I found it took longer this time to be ready for a relationship compared to being divorced. (So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16)
However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" -- the things God has prepared for those who love him—1 Cor. 2:9
It’s using our faith to get what is already ours. We are already healed, already prosperous, and already God has our marriage partner in life.
Some of us are big sinners. Like the apostle Paul was where he said he was “chief among sinners.” Complaining about our bills, complaining about the weather, get upset in traffic, get upset with the Homeowners Association and all their ding letters, get upset when we are not appreciated by our children, a manager or a spouse.
Part of the problem with the holiness teaching is they preach more on our trying to please God than trusting God. It’s very focused on what we do rather than God fulfilling his promises in our lives. I heard one minister say, “Don’t preach against sin preach the cure.”
I like that quote on that movie, “Cobra” by Sylvester Stallone where he tells the criminal, “You are the disease and I’m the cure.” Only we got the disease (sin) and God has the cure (Grace).
For the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17
Corrie ten Boom held up her Bible to God and read God his own promises. “God your word says this.” One could say that Corrie was bold in her faith. She got out of a German concentration camp during the reign of Hitler since her father and she were hiding Jews in their house because of a clerical error or she would have gone to the gas chamber.
I’ve had some divorced women tell me that even after seven years they don’t want to get remarried, because it’s too much work. That is because we can be like Sarah and Abraham and try to put something together in the flesh in a relationship, or we can put our trust in God that he will put it together.
That does not mean we don’t lift a finger. I have to give God something to work with as a co-laborer in Christ. The widow gave God her last two coins, when Elijah came to a widow, she gave her last oil and cake, the boy gave Jesus his two fish and five loaves of bread, and Peter let Jesus use his boat. God takes a little like us and can make it a lot.
It’s not only giving God our resources –but it’s giving God our hearts. The rich young ruler walked away sorrowful because his heart trusted in riches, not in
God.
Those who trust in the Lord
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. Psalm 125:1
Greed causes fighting; trusting the Lord leads to prosperity. Proverbs 28:25
God has “prepared” for us his goodness of what we need in this life. Sometimes there is disparity of waiting on God as far as I was sexually ready to move on after I lost my husband in six months, but I was not emotionally ready. Same experience I had when I was divorced. I learned to give into my spirit to wait and not my physical drive. I found it took longer this time to be ready for a relationship compared to being divorced. (So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16)
However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" -- the things God has prepared for those who love him—1 Cor. 2:9
It’s using our faith to get what is already ours. We are already healed, already prosperous, and already God has our marriage partner in life.
Some of us are big sinners. Like the apostle Paul was where he said he was “chief among sinners.” Complaining about our bills, complaining about the weather, get upset in traffic, get upset with the Homeowners Association and all their ding letters, get upset when we are not appreciated by our children, a manager or a spouse.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
I find the more I understand grace, it teaches me to be able to do the right thing. God has dealt to every man a measure of faith so it’s not dependence on my love, my faith, my faithfulness, my goodness. God gets all the glory, because it all comes back to those seeds in my life that are planted all came from God. (For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. Philips 2:13)
and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.…1 Timothy 1:15-16
I find the more I understand grace, it teaches me to be able to do the right thing. God has dealt to every man a measure of faith so it’s not dependence on my love, my faith, my faithfulness, my goodness. God gets all the glory, because it all comes back to those seeds in my life that are planted all came from God. (For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. Philips 2:13)
and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.…1 Timothy 1:15-16
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