I Can’t…But God Can!

Psalm 39:4  “LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.”

I was laying in bed this morning just thinking. Have you ever had one of those days when you just “feel” sad?  It’s probably a hormone thing but nonetheless, on this day, I was feeling sad.   I don’t often tell people that. It just doesn’t sound right coming from a born again, child of God to say they are sad. But I was.

I'm sad when I watch those I love making decisions that will ruin their life and I can’t do anything to stop them. I'm sad for friends who carry such heavy burdens in life that you almost see the weight of it all on their shoulders and in their eyes.

I wish for myself that I could get up in the morning and work hard from dawn until dusk like I used to, but I can no longer physically do that. It is easy to ask the Lord why all these things are this way, but a better question reallymight be, “What is it that I am suppose to learn from it all”?  What is the bottom line?

This is what He put on my heart.

Philippians 3:10  “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

Yes…there is the bottom line and the ‘why’.  “That I may know Him.”

How bad do I really want to know Him? How much and how deeply do I want to know Him? Am I willing to do what ever it takes to know Him like He wants me to know Him? Am I willing to give up anything and everything to know Him?

This thought sure changed my perspective this morning and I found myself feeling more glad… than sad.  It's not my business to know all the why’s or to fix anything. I can’t any way. But, God can. The verse at the very beginning (Psalm 39:4) reminds that I am frail and that’s about as good as it gets.

I'm suppose to be this way. It's all about depending on God and His power. The more frail I get… the more power God seems to have.

When I'm at the end of all I can do. God has not even begun to do all He can do!

There is nothing that God can not do because His power is endless.  I’m beginning to realize something. I think I am anyway…. God knows that the cares and burdens of this life are real. We all have them. That's life! He sees everything we go through. every moment of everyday, and He has a plan for those “things” in the lives of those who love Him.   That truth is found in Psalm 55:22  “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”

Just let God take care of it all. I need to be burdened enough to pray about things and ask God to do what only God can do, but then I need to get out of the way and let Him have His way!

I can’t really know God and I will never see His power--- if I don’t follow His plan.
Romans 8:28  “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

I'm reminded of the hymn we often sing called, “I Surrender All”.  All means all.

Ecclesiastes 12:13  “ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

We just need to do it.

Dianne