We have all experienced great difficulty at one time or another during our lives. Christian and non-Christian, alike. Of course, there is a difference. The first may lean on the everlasting arms of God and ask for help and direction. The latter, self-guided only, can look only to him/herself for help and direction. Maybe a friend, of course.
It’s at those greatest treacherous times that an individual sometimes surrenders their own leadership of life, admits that they are incapable of directing their own way without God’s assistance, and seek the assistance of the Lord Jesus Christ. Once we realize that we are incapable of properly guiding our own way and that we must reach out to a loving God whose sole desire is to help and guide us—fulfillment cannot be far off.
“… For God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:” (1Pe 5:5-6 KJV)”
Imagine for one moment, a two-year-old child walking hand-in-hand with her father and in the middle of a bustling city. The two approach a four-cornered intersection and the little girl says, “Daddy, I can do this myself now. I’m leaving.” She lets go of his hand and runs off. We suggest that the child has more probability of surviving than we do when we reject Him who created all things on our behalf. Are we not mere children within the cosmos of God’s creation? And the father, must he not be overwhelmed with joy and love when that child miraculously returns to him.
To be proud is to believe that you can do it yourself. To need no one else. To be humble is to be meek to God teaching us. It is the only true and permanent way out of difficulty. I say this with the greatest of humility and urgency: Everything that Yahweh (God, our father) says is going to happen, has either already happened, or will happen. Prepare yourself.
Gratitude,
Anthony Barbera
“God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” [1Ti 2:4-5 RSV]
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