Dependency

Who or what are you depending on?  Our dependency can be on many things, for instance; money, jobs, popularity or fame, or a person, or the strength you have, or your gifts and talents and I could go on.  If you are a believer your dependency should always be on the Lord.

Many people think they can get by on their own, thinking they don’t need anyone else, but everyone needs someone and as far as I am concerned I think everyone needs the Lord.  There was a song out, I am not sure how long ago, but I think it was called, “People Need the Lord.”  It seems that we all face times when we don’t know what to do and we need help, and that help, for a believer, is just a prayer away.  In other words, we need to put whatever it is in the Lord’s hands, it may be a trial or a temptation, and with faith we do our part to bring about the answer.

James tells us how we should respond when we face trials, read what God’s Word says in James 1:1-8, “James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

James is saying when we face trials or testing, we should count it all joy.  We can profit from the things we face and learn from them if we seek to, with a positive attitude.  Hardships can help us to see what we need to deal with in our lives and can show us things in ourselves that need to be changed.  God said that He would never leave us or forsake us, so no matter what we face or what we are going through we can know that the Lord will go through it with us; just like He was there with Daniel in the lion’s den and the three Hebrew boys when they were thrown into the raging fire and so many others.  They depended on their God and He didn’t disappoint them, He was there with them.  

God isn’t working just to make us happy He wants to fulfill His purpose for our lives.  Read what Romans 8:26-28, “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

                                                                 

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

Notice what it says, “to those who are the called according to His purpose.”  This promise is for believers who put their trust in the Lord!!  The Lord God loves all of us and He has made a way that we can be justified, just like we never sinned, which we are all guilty of.  That way is through Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, which is the only way we can get to heaven or be right with God.  If you put your trust in, or depend on, anything else, it will be like jumping in water and expecting it to hold you up or just plain spitting in the wind, which will do nothing for you but get you wet.  Consider what Jesus said in John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

This is one of the most basic, important scriptures in the Word.  How can mankind get to the God that created the world?  There is only one way, even though it seems very narrow to many people, and that is through Jesus, God’s son, like I said earlier!!  He knows everything about you and everything you will face and He has the answers to all things and nothing is impossible with Him!!  So, who are you depending on?  Anything but the Lord is like depending on straw or hay!!  Something to think about!  Have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours!!