It is so easy to surrender our lives to circumstances, feel
defeated by the hard knocks we receive; but surrendering to God is so
hard to do. We seem to prefer to surrender and cave in under pressure
than to willingly give up our lives, our troubles and our frustrations
to God. Why is that?
Is it because our egos are so big that if we fail, we just want to
have the failures attributed to us? Or perhaps we just cannot give over
the rein of life to the ONE driver who can get us to our destination
safely?
It is so easy when we see others having problems to just say "Leave
it to God. Remember Proverbs 3:5,6". Or God will not test you beyond
what you can bear. Or what you face is common to man, God always gives
you a way out. All these reassuring words, all from the word of God, can
work wonders ... but can be very meaningless to the person saying them,
because he/she doesn't know what it means to come to the state where
one feels like there is no way out, when the point of desperation is so
real and overwhelming. These can be just empty words.
So when this person himself/herself comes to the place where those
very words can be uttered meaningfully to him/her, these words become
empty words - because these words had never held true to him/her before.
Because these words were merely words. Now, being on the receiving end
of these reassuring and most beautiful words, he/she cannot understand
them.
How sad it is then.
Instead of letting those words minister to the heart, some of us
would rather let them pass, or escape to some corners of our minds and
wallow in self-pity or focus only on ourselves, never on God.
How do we help someone like this?
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