The practical hidden lesson of utmost dependence
on God
As Christians we are to
depend on God for all that we need and until we understand to what level and
length, we tend to not realise when God is teaching us how to fully depend on
Him.
Question posed is, if we
did not go through these tough times and hardships, how then would we depend on
God, where would we get the opportunities to call upon Him for dependence?
Why would we need to depend
on anyone if we did not have any reasons to feel weary and weak? If we never
lacked the strength to keep going why would it have to be provided?
If we never lacked the heart
to be strong and everything was always smooth, why would we need provision for
the support from the creator?
And when we do actually go
through these hardships and then move our dependence for support and provision
from God to people, why will He not give us bigger challenges that men cannot
resolve?
When would we get time to
look unto him and seek him with all of our hearts unless we are put in
situations that leave us with no choice but to look up to Him and seek Refuge
and strength.
If problems too big for us,
the world and our friends are not given to us where our only option left is to
look upon the creator of all things who possesses all solutions to all problems
of the world when would we get the chance to do that?
When would God get the
deserved dependence upon Him from His people? As the glory of young men is in
their strength and ability to provide for their household, God’s glory is His ability
to provide for His children as they depend upon Him.
A married man would hate to
see his wife and children depend on somebody else for their supply of anything
that he himself is able to provide for them, same goes with God.
Isaiah 40:31 those who wait
on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like
eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
The strength of men is not
everlasting, but that of GOD IS, If you spared men the efforts to be your
strength, God would fill you with His own strength that does not run out, you
would mount up with wings like eagles.
As the eagle who is the king of
birds soars the highest into the heavens, believers are to live a heavenly
life, in the very presence, joy and love of GOD, they are to live where God
lives and they need HIS strength to rise there.
Eagle wings are given only
by eagle birth, as you are born Of GOD, you have eagle wings, you may not have known it, may not have used them but
when you depend on God, you create an atmosphere for Him to teach you how to
use your God given wings.
For an eaglet to be taught
to use its wings, it is pushed off from its precipice which is a thousand feet
high by its mother, as it flutters and falls and sinks towards the depth, the
mother hovers above the young one spreading her wings to carry it back to its
place of safety, she does this over and over again until the eaglets eventually
masters to use its own wings.
The same way with God, He
stirs up your nest, disappoints your hopes and brings down your confidence,
makes you fear and tremble as all your own strength fails and you feel utterly
weary and helpless, and all the while He is spreading His wings waiting for you
to rest your weakness on Him and offering His everlasting creator strength to
work in you.
This is the lesson we all
fail to see God teaching us, over and over again we go through difficult times,
disappointments and hurt, all we see from it is the devil at work and we
continue to try and depend on ourselves and ask God to help us, yes we seek the
help from Him but what we miss is the lesson of utmost dependence on Him.
If we do not go through the
difficult times, we will never master the skill of utmost dependence on God,
this lesson will never sink in to the depth of the last level which GOD expects
our dependence on Him to reach. “Excellence in dependence on God” is the lesson
some hardships are meant to teach us.
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