Pride Continued

“God, I let you have control of my life for one summer and all I got was pain and hurt. It seems to me that I can do a better job handling my own life”.  Although I have never said this to God, this is exactly what I was saying by worrying constantly and being unsatisfied with my recently made decision.  I never quite undertood this passage until now.

1 Peter 5:6-7 — “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you”.

I never understood what giving up your worries had to do with humbling yourself. But now I understand. Worrying is the same as not trusting God, it is also, not recognizing our constant and continual need for God. If I am not trusting God then I am saying, you can’t handle things as well as I can. Thus putting ourselves on an equal or higher level than God. Not recognizing our need for God is again saying, I can handle things on my own. It is not until we realize how deprived we are without God that we are able to trust Him and cast all our anxieties upon Him. We cannot be truly humble until we do so. We also cannot be truly free from the chains of anxiety either.

~ by ladydeathmaggot on August 19, 2008.