I'm pretty good at honoring God for getting me to where I am in this life. I'm a lot less good at inviting him to get me where I'm going.
Steven Furtick says, "you need God to help you fill what God helped you build." It's so easy for me to walk into the new buildings of my life that God has helped me build and say, thank you God, I'll take it from here. It's so much easier for me to recognize God has been with me along the way than it is to have faith he will stick with me where I'm going. Why does honoring God come so much easier to me than trusting God? I think a lot of it has to do with living in an "I've got this culture." So much of our culture is built on grooming the power of the individual at the expense of becoming the power of the collective. We make a hero out of willpower while togetherness goes largely unnoticed. And when we can't embrace the togetherness of the people we see, it's hard to lean on the togetherness we have in an invisible God. Why is it so much easier for me to say "I didn't get here alone" than it is to say "I'll never get there alone"? Why is it easier for me to say "thank you God" than it is to say "I trust you God"? I suppose it's because recognizing what God has already done in my life requires very little of me. It's hard to NOT recognize what is right in front of me. But to trust God going forward, that requires me trusting what I can't see. It requires me to surrender to God's vision and burn the myth of my own willpower. *Note - nothing in my life needs swallowed whole by an inferno more than the myth of my own willpower. That inferno is a work in progress. But thankfully, there IS progress. There is more of me saying fill what you've built God. There is more of me saying I see what you've done and I trust in what you are doing. I long to get to where I invite God as much as I honor God. Because I know, ten years from now I'll look back and see that God was with me all the while. History tells me that. So why not trust now that he already sees what I know I will surely see? Why not trust him to fill what he's already built.
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