Joyful Dependence

If you will walk with God then two fundamental lessons must be thoroughly learned through experience: You are completely helpless to please God apart from Christ’s enabling; Christ alone can be your sufficiency. When you know well your total inadequacy, and in child-like faith trust Him in His complete adequacy, then you will experience what He alone can do in you and through you. The biggest hindrance to overflowing with the Holy Spirit is dependence on self’s ability. We must come to the end of our self-confidence and realize that we are desperate for Christ to do what He alone can do. With this knowledge chiseled into your heart, prayer without ceasing will not be a discipline you practice but will become the breathing of your soul. It will spontaneously arise from your spirit because you are profoundly aware of your bankruptcy and equally aware of His full provision through the Spirit of Christ who lives within you. You will consciously and deliberately depend on Him to be who He is through your unique personality. It will be, “no longer I who live, but Christ” (Gal. 2:20).

~A Disciple's Notebook

I am grateful. Grateful that my God has a great enough love for me to show me, however many times I may need reminding, that He alone can satisfy.

He alone is eternal.

And now I understand and echo the words of David in Psalm 16 . . . "I have set the LORD continually before me . . . Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh also will dwell securely."

The LORD has graciously shown my the path of life. Daily dependence on Him. Only through Him can I love. Only through Him can I dwell securely. Only through Him can I understand and know Him. Only through being filled with His Spirit can I begin to know His will for me.

In His presence is fullness of joy.

In His right hand are pleasures forever.