About a week ago, I heard a sermon that caused me to start thinking about the need for me to recognize my daily dependence on God. My sinful self wants to believe that I can be self-sufficient and that I can meet my own needs or take care of myself. However, God wants me to live each day in complete dependence on Him. God's goal is not to restrict my life but to free it. He has my best in mind and living close to Him is the only way that I can experience the joy and ultimate satisfaction that He alone can provide.
This prayer seems to be a powerfully dependent prayer:
Proverbs 30:7-9
7 “Two things I ask of you, LORD;
do not refuse me before I die:
8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.
It must take an immense amount of faith to pray this way. I am tempted not only to ask for more, but to actively pursue more and more.
"God, give me the faith to walk with you each day and be contentedly dependent on you for my needs. Crush my desires for anything more than you give. May I find my satisfaction in you and may this bring you glory."
He must increase, I must decrease.
JasonPS
