Living Life for Christ Alone

 "We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely on God, who raises the dead." (2 Corinthians 1:8b-9) The saying that God will never give us more than we can endure is simply not true.  At times, we get to this place of complete overwhelm beyond what we can endure.  Why? Why would God allow that to happen to His children? Why would God make life -and even survival- impossible for us?  It's quite simple, really.  Overwhelm is when all the temporary fixes we depend on stop working. Overwhelm is when the truth of those temporary fixes sinks in; they are not really fixes at all. Overwhelm is when we can begin to realize we were made to depend on the unseen, eternal God. It is when we are forced to make a choice in response to our own instinct to survive as to who or what we will depend on. It is when we are g...

This morning, I was praying through parts of Colossians 1, where in verse 9 it says, "...that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and understanding."  The NLT put it this way: "...We ask God to give you complete knowledge of His will...." My response to that verse was, "Lord, how can I have complete knowledge of Your will? How can I really know what it is? It seems impossible!"