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How's Your Relationship with God? (2)
'...I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will' John 5:30
Three things characterised Christ's relationship with his Father. Yesterday we looked at intimacy and today we'll look at his dependency on God. 'I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything He is doing' (John 5:19-20 TM).
Someone once said, 'Christians don't tell lies, they just sing them.' It can be easy to declare our dependence on God in the throes of an amazing worship set but then walk out the door with the same prideful attitude as though we alone were God's gift of salvation to the world.
Often, if we fail at something, it's usually because we collapsed under the weight of a task God never gave us to do in the first place. Jesus was Mr Security. He never had issues with the fear of failure; never had to do battle with insecurity because he knew who he was as God's Son. He never gave space to the thought that he couldn't do the very things that his Dad had assured him he could do.
Your heavenly Father won't ever give you something to do that won't require His wisdom and strength. It'll be designed to increase your dependence on Him, not decrease it. When you wake up each day, let your first thought be, 'God I need you today, and there is no backup plan!'
written by Bob Gass
'...I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will' John 5:30
Three things characterised Christ's relationship with his Father. Yesterday we looked at intimacy and today we'll look at his dependency on God. 'I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything He is doing' (John 5:19-20 TM).
Someone once said, 'Christians don't tell lies, they just sing them.' It can be easy to declare our dependence on God in the throes of an amazing worship set but then walk out the door with the same prideful attitude as though we alone were God's gift of salvation to the world.
Often, if we fail at something, it's usually because we collapsed under the weight of a task God never gave us to do in the first place. Jesus was Mr Security. He never had issues with the fear of failure; never had to do battle with insecurity because he knew who he was as God's Son. He never gave space to the thought that he couldn't do the very things that his Dad had assured him he could do.
Your heavenly Father won't ever give you something to do that won't require His wisdom and strength. It'll be designed to increase your dependence on Him, not decrease it. When you wake up each day, let your first thought be, 'God I need you today, and there is no backup plan!'
written by Bob Gass
