This quote is Psalm 31:14-15a. It is good for us to trust in God and to remember our place. We are not in the driver seat, not if we want to have an abundant life, a fulfilling life, a life blessed by God and a life according to His will.
He is God. The one and only true God. He is the Alpha Omega, the beginning and the end. He is King of kings and Lord of lords He is I AM! There is nothing greater than Him, He is the Creator of the universe. Before anything was He was. Before time He was. Before light He was and always will be.
Anytime we put ourselves in the driver seat of our lives we not only act with outlandish pride, but foolhardy folly! How dare we think that we have any advantage over God in the direction that our lives should take! I’m speaking this as harshly to myself as anyone who is reading this.
We all at times take turns at grabbing the steering wheel out of the LORD’s hands and being the gentleman that He is He won’t force it. He wants to direct our paths and have control of the steering wheel but it’s our’s to give to Him and sometimes we have to surrender control on a daily if not hourly or moment by moment basis. But that is how love works, it doesn’t control you. God loves us enough to wait until we are ready to surrender our lives to him be that the submission of salvation or the submission of daily obedience to His loving guidance.
It is equally not wise for us to sit in the backseat and do any backseat driving. You know what I mean, like the times we like to try and tell God how best to do His job. “Lord if you just…”, “Lord, I just need you to…”, “Lord, I know you said to, but…”, “Lord if we could just go this way.”. These are all statements of pride because we think that we can do it better than the I AM.
He’s the same yesterday, today and forever He will always be looking to you for relationship but He wants love and love is never forced so He waits. Whether it’s your first step to salvation or your 10,177 step in obedience, He’s looking for us to open the door to Him.
Our time is in His hands and it only makes sense to go to the Creator of you and me for everything in our lives. He should be the first thing that we think of each morning and the first One we greet and the last thing on our mind each night, falling asleep with thoughts or communication to/of Him. Please don’t get me wrong my spiritual life is no where near this but the cry of my heart tells me this is how I would prefer it to be. Maybe I’ll never attain it this side of heaven but it is my desire to come as close to this as possible.
Incase you don’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ, all you need to do is confess your sins to God and ask His forgiveness for those sins (sin is anything other than absolute perfection to the laws of God-which you know because the Bible says they are written on man’s heart, so look to your heart openly and honestly and see how truly good you are-you can ask God to help you with this). You can receive the forgiveness of those sins if you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross paying the penalty for your and all the world’s sins, accept God’s grace of what His Son did for you and ask God to accept you into His family & the gift of the Holy Spirit. Turn away from your old sinful life and strive to live your new life like Christ that you may be a reflection of what has been done inside you, not that your works will make any difference whether you get into heaven or not that is a free gift to anyone how believes, your works just show the change in your heart and life.
Joy – A Fellow Sojourner & A Woman After God’s Own Heart!
Joy's Words of Encouragement 