That’s okay God. I can handle this one.

Image via WikipediaWe all have things that we are gifted to do. Some of us are good with numbers. Others are good with words. Some of us are good with our hands. Some are good with their minds. It’s the variety that makes the people around us so interesting.

And that’s the way it is at life. Hopefully, you are excellent at what you do. In fact, Scripture calls you to excellence.

But there can be a slow creep when you know you’re good — a certain pride that you can do things “on your own.”You might lean on God when it comes to analyzing reports – because you struggle in that area. But when it comes to orally giving a presentation, you don’t need God – because you’re blessed with a silver tongue.


You might regularly lean on God to change your brake pads in your car – because you still haven’t learned “righty tighty, lefty loosey.” But you didn’t lean on God to build your deck, because you bought a book from Home Depot. 


You might trust God when your daughter has her first boyfriend, but when you don’t consult him when faced with a big decision at work because it’s the same one every year at budget time. 

Can you see the danger of leaning on yourself when it’s convenient? Do you have areas in your life that you are totally okay giving to God, others that “you team up with” and still others that you “can handle?”


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Psalm 10: 4 “In his pride the wicked does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.”