For quite a length of time, I wrestled to try to find an answer that I needed. What I sought seemed so insignificant in comparison to the ‘biggies’ out there. No one’s life hung in the balance; the earth would not stop its rotation; nor would any part of nature cease to be without it, yet the answer was needed and, in spite of how much I looked or how many different ways I racked my brain, the solution would not come. I had convinced myself that I could fit the pieces together and come up with the
answer on my own if I only tried hard enough for a long enough period of time. After all, why should I
bother God with something that I deemed so trivial?
Humans have been doing this for as long as we’ve existed on this earth. It’s called pride. What exactly does it mean? In a nutshell, it means that a person thinks that they can handle things all on their own.
Once my pride was realized, I bowed my head in shame over not coming to Him first, cried out in frustration over the amount of energy I had needlessly wasted and then slowly knelt before the Father. Before my knees could get fully onto the floor, the hot tears rolled down my face as the words of praise to Him poured from my mouth. The pride in me had broken.
Psalm 95:6 “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our
Maker.”
This simple act of kneeling causes something to ‘break’ inside of each of us. As we bend our knee – our weakest joint – we let go of ourselves and whatever had been preventing us from seeking God in the first place. When we kneel, we relinquish the hold of that ‘I-can-do-it-all-by-myself’ attitude. In this position of submission, we acknowledge that there is One who is far superior to us. And it is in this vulnerable, exposed state of complete trust as we kneel that we bow in awe, with a holy fear, to our Maker who deserves all of our respect, honor and praise.
What if you are unable to physically kneel? This humbleness of kneeling is more a posture (i.e. attitude) of the heart.
James 4:10 “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
Once I gave my problem to Him, the answer I had so desperately sought arrived in time.
We need Him in all things every hour of the day. What is that you have been wrestling to find an answer for? He’s waiting to hear from you.
Psalm 55:22 “Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.”
(For more information about forming a relationship with the Lord, see How You Can Find Him located at the top of this page.)
answer on my own if I only tried hard enough for a long enough period of time. After all, why should I
bother God with something that I deemed so trivial?
Humans have been doing this for as long as we’ve existed on this earth. It’s called pride. What exactly does it mean? In a nutshell, it means that a person thinks that they can handle things all on their own.
Once my pride was realized, I bowed my head in shame over not coming to Him first, cried out in frustration over the amount of energy I had needlessly wasted and then slowly knelt before the Father. Before my knees could get fully onto the floor, the hot tears rolled down my face as the words of praise to Him poured from my mouth. The pride in me had broken.
Psalm 95:6 “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our
Maker.”
This simple act of kneeling causes something to ‘break’ inside of each of us. As we bend our knee – our weakest joint – we let go of ourselves and whatever had been preventing us from seeking God in the first place. When we kneel, we relinquish the hold of that ‘I-can-do-it-all-by-myself’ attitude. In this position of submission, we acknowledge that there is One who is far superior to us. And it is in this vulnerable, exposed state of complete trust as we kneel that we bow in awe, with a holy fear, to our Maker who deserves all of our respect, honor and praise.
What if you are unable to physically kneel? This humbleness of kneeling is more a posture (i.e. attitude) of the heart.
James 4:10 “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
Once I gave my problem to Him, the answer I had so desperately sought arrived in time.
We need Him in all things every hour of the day. What is that you have been wrestling to find an answer for? He’s waiting to hear from you.
Psalm 55:22 “Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.”
(For more information about forming a relationship with the Lord, see How You Can Find Him located at the top of this page.)
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