Thursday, March 27, 2008
Lips and Hearts
Milt Stanley links to Cal Habig who quotes Dallas Willard:
You see, it is really funny how this works. The more less we worry about what we do and the more we let God work with what we do, the more what we do will be what God wanted us to do and the more effeective it will be.
What's the old phrase, "Let Go, Let God." Trite, but true.
Our life in Christ may be the only endeavor we ever undertake where the less we try the better we get. Well, provided that the less we try is accompanied by trust. See there in lies the rub. There is a big difference between less trying and trusting.
Are you really willing to let the invisible God handle things? I mean really?
Why is it so hard to trust in God? Why is it so hard to give up control? I think the answers are different for every person, but this much is undeniable, it is in that those contradictory desire that the key to a genuine Christian life lies.
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When you come to the place where you are drinking deeply from God and trusting him to act with you, there is peace about what you have communicated.Forget preaching, that is true for just about everything. It is less about what we do and more about what God does with what we do.
One of my great joys came when I got up from a chair to walk to the podium and the Lord said to me, "Now remember, it's what I do with the Word between your lips and their hearts that matters." That is a tremendous lesson. If you do not trust God to do that, then he will let you do what you're going to do, and it's not going to come to much.
You see, it is really funny how this works. The more less we worry about what we do and the more we let God work with what we do, the more what we do will be what God wanted us to do and the more effeective it will be.
What's the old phrase, "Let Go, Let God." Trite, but true.
Our life in Christ may be the only endeavor we ever undertake where the less we try the better we get. Well, provided that the less we try is accompanied by trust. See there in lies the rub. There is a big difference between less trying and trusting.
Are you really willing to let the invisible God handle things? I mean really?
Why is it so hard to trust in God? Why is it so hard to give up control? I think the answers are different for every person, but this much is undeniable, it is in that those contradictory desire that the key to a genuine Christian life lies.
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