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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Trusting God, or Trusting People?

Lately on myspace, I have seen tons of posts from small bands begging people to go to Creation's website and vote for them to be able to play. Now...at first I thought hey cool thats something to pray about, but then I started to see that many of the bands were getting very competitive and it was becoming a thing that was all about them. It was like, they wanted to play at Creation for them and for them only. God wasn't even a part of these bulletins anymore...when I saw this...I thought of what Paul wrote in Philippians.

Philippians 4:6
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

What I was seeing, was not this. They were putting their trust in the people on myspace when truly they should have been praying to God and asking Him if this is what He wanted for them. Its okay to ask for support, but when you get to the point where you are begging and not even considering what God wants for you...thats when things get off track. I believe that this is when we lose everything, when we don't get what we really want because we are taking our eyes off of Christ. We are also not making Him the center of our life. I know that I struggle with this as well! Don't think that I am just pointing this out and judging them...this has taught me a huge lesson about taking everything to God and trusting in Him...and this is something that I am still working on. My prayer is for everyone to find this...to find where it is a natural thing to just go to God with everything...its also my prayer for me to accomplish!

1 Comments:

At 9:07 PM, Blogger Burt and Tana Hey said...

You bless my soul girl! Thanks for your beautiful and honest writing. I needed to hear this reminder as I am feeling a bit defeated lately. I am so proud of your growth!

 

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