When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something and to them it's just as hard as what you're going through.
God wants to take us to places we've never been. To heights we can't even imagine. In order to do that, we have to go through the low valleys, treacherous mountains, rough terrain, and narrow paths of life, places where we could easily get lost or cut off the track. And there is definitely no way we can just head off on our own and expect to arrive safely in the place He has planned for us. We will never know the joy of true freedom until we understand we cannot take a single step without His help.
God doesn't want us to just depend on Him as a last resort when we have a medical emergency or a financial crisis. He wants us to depend on Him for every breath we take. And, quite opposite of the way it may seem, that kind of dependent life is not stifling. It's liberating!
Learning to walk with God is a process. And just when we think we have it all figured out, God leads us into a new place where our old tricks won't work. In fact, it may seem like we're learning to walk again. And in a way we are. We enter unfamiliar territory and are soon reminded that, on our own, we stumble. Yet when we take His hand, we fly. God wants us to soar far above the limitations of our lives and ourselves. He wants to take us to a place we have never been before and can't get to from where we are without His help.
If you are at a place in your life where you feel like you can't take one step without the Lord's help, be glad. He has you where He wants you.
A man's heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.~ Proverbs 16:9
The path is not a punishment; it's a privilege. It's not a restriction; it's a reward.
Blessings,
Dalinda
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