Did you fill in the blank with "me"? Is this a motto you live by? Do you think that in order to have what you want you must believe in yourself to make it happen? Are you self-reliant or God-dependent?
Our lives are an open book test. Are we looking up the answers or relying on what we already know? Are we trying to blend what we have learned from the world with what God says?
If you want something done right, STOP! Do not try to do it yourself! Pause and surrender. Admit you are weak, have no power and are unable to do anything without God.
Jeremiah 17:5-6 (ERV)says, "This is what the Lord says: “Bad things will happen to those who put their trust in people. Bad things will happen to those who depend on human strength. That is because they have stopped trusting the Lord. They are like a bush in a desert where no one lives. It is in a hot and dry land. It is in bad soil. That bush does not know about the good things that God can give. "
