MY WAY Vs. GOD’s WAY

Last night my husband came back from a ‘not so great’ day at work. He is usually not the kind of person who likes to talk or discuss about his problems He usually talks about the problem only after he has handled it and it’s sorted. He’s quiet when something is wrong and that’s my cue to know the fact that my husband is upset about something. But he does look up to me a lot to support him by praying for him.

Yesterday was different in the sense that he seemed to want to talk about it. This was a welcome change cos you see the way we women were created we feel a certain pride when someone trusts us to talk about their problems with us. So as I was cooking dinner, my husband just came and helped me around as he was telling me about his day and how things didn’t work out as expected. I know Jerry is very systematic and passionate about what he does and that he had worked during weekends and late nights for this particular meeting and I felt bad for him and all I could say was – 'we’ll pray and everything will be alright.'

Today morning my bible portion was about handling adversity and the important role ‘Faith’ played in our lives, in our relationship with God, in living a successful life and in being a good human being.

I was sharing with my husband about what I had learnt this morning. In fact for the last few days I had this same kind of reading where the same truth was taught to me in different ways.
There are two ways we can go about doing something. One is our way of, let’s say, handling a project. And another is God’s way of handling the same project. Undoubtedly, God’s way is way beyond better than our way. Here is where Faith plays an important role. Faith is that key that allows God to handle the project in His way. Okay let me explain this in a better way.

Sometimes when we are very efficient and creative and hardworking and have all the knowledge required, we became so easily confident in what we do, which is a good thing. But then it’s not like we think we don’t need God’s help but just that we forget to ask for God to help. So here we trust on our own work and efforts. No matter what, things can go wrong and as humans there is no insurance against that. When we cannot handle something and are weak it’s easy to ask God for help but when we are very good at something and have done a great job handling it and got good appreciations, at such times we begin to believe that we are great at this and then we forget to ask God for help or to rely on Him and be confident in God.

One, we can do it with all the resources and help and the efficiency that we have. The second and the better way of doing something is, by putting in your best but then praying about it to God and surrendering it in God’s hands so that He would take what we have done and bless it and make it hundred, thousand fold more. Remember the story of the 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. Exactly the same.

Now in the scenario that we begin to get real good at what we do and forget to take God’s help, we do our best and not God’s best. Sometimes we are even satisfied and happy with that but the good news is that, God isn’t satisfied with that. He wants to take our intelligence and creativity and hard work and bless it (again like the 5 loaves and 2 fishes) and make something very beautiful out of it. So when we forget to ask God for help, when we forget to rely on God, when we forget to put our ‘Faith’ in God, God loves us too much to just let us be like that. So sometimes He has to remind us to rely on Him. He has to remind us to put our ‘Faith’ in Him so that we cross over from just doing a good job to doing a good job and having God bless it into many times more.

My husband is looking into what needs to be sorted and set things right and he’s going to do a good job at that but I am sure this time he is definitely going to put things in God’s hands and ask for His blessings. And things will go God’s way, which is the safest and the most blessed way.
Proverbs 3:5, 6 (AMP)- Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.