God cannot help you unless you allow God to help you. Many of us could be accused of trying to out-God God. We think we know more than God. We think we can do more than God. We actually believe that what we want and how we want it is better than the way God can bring it to us. In fact, we get so busy doing what we do the way we do it, there is no opportunity for God to get into our lives at all!
If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that’s up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so.
Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God’s way. You think you are demonstrating your independence. You think that it is all up to you and that you must do it or it won’t get done. God knows better! God knows that God cannot fail! However, God has no need to prove to you what God can do.
How do you know when you are in God’s way? How do you know when you are running your program rather than allowing God’s divine plan to unfold? It’s very simple. If you are struggling to make things happen and they are not happening, then it’s you, not God, running the show.
Until today, you may have been directing your own life and attempting to produce your own blessings. Just for today, ask for directions. Open yourself to guidance. Give up your attachments to having things your way. Open yourself to God’s way.
Today I am devoted to allowing God to work through me and for me!
From: “Until Today” by Iyanla Vanzant
David Lee 