This thought popped into my head this morning:
Give up your preconceived notions because they're all inadequate anyway. They’re not wrong, just inadequate. Just know this: that God loves you and he’ll catch you. That's all.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this. Psalm 37:5
Preconceived notions, huh? I guess that means everything I’ve been taught, everything I’ve read, and everything I’ve heard. That’s a big order. But… God is bigger than all that anyway. I’ll have to think about it more, of course. It’s either an inspiration or a delusion.
I honestly don’t know if I can do it, or if I even know what it means. How do I stop striving? How do I stop worrying? Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it was a thought put into my head by the devil... But there I go again, striving.
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26
The 12 step programs put it very simply; “Let Go, Let God.” Sometimes I think they have it closer than anyone else:
Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction (or the effects of addiction) - that our lives had become unmanageable.
'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty. Zechariah 4:6
You’re not supposed to move on to step two until you’ve got step one down pat. And that first step is a doozy! It’s like walking on water. It won’t help to understand the molecular structure of water. Just trust.
Step 2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. Romans 11:6
If you fall, God will catch you. If you don’t fall, you’ll never know.
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