If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times...

Morning...

I find humor in how I often think that "if I could just do that" or "if I could just do this" than I would get my life just right. I think to myself how if I just changed this or that aspect of my life everything would be fine and in fact life would be better. Problem is I so commonly find; I do not have the discipline or self-control to change the things that need to be changed. Paul always strikes a chord with me when he writes about not doing the things he wants to and doing the things he doesn't. Unfortunately that resonates deep in my soul. I've been encouraged in the three days that I have fasted because in fasting I'm giving up those things that I "can not" change and allowing God to take control. There's something about a fast that FORCES you to give God control. I'm finding I should fast much more often and I am starting to understand why J.C. did it so often. The beauty in all this is that when I wrote above that life would be "just right" if we could make the change... I wasn't entirely off the mark. We know life will never be just right as evidenced by living in a fallen world BUT, I'm finding God hastens to strengthen us when we need it most. The promise that we wont be tempted above what we can bear is true but it stretches so far beyond that. God isn't going to tempt us and leave us to dry. In fact when we honor him and give up what it is that we "can not change" he quickly meets our "needs" in other ways. Ways we never thought imaginable. I can't help but laugh at how many times I have heard what I've written today. God give me the strength to grasp the simple. I'm reminded of that old D.C. Talk tune...

Some people gotta learn the hard way.
I guess Im the kinda man who has to find out for myself.
I had to learn the hard way Father.
I'm on my knees and I'm crying for help.

Story of my life... God let my pride and stubborness be lost in the sea!!