Higher Power

[janbear]

Believing is not our favor to God; it is God's favor to us to invite our belief. God is not sustained by our caring for him; we are sustained by God's fidelity to us. To call if off between ourselves and God does not decrease his light, but rather makes us even blinder than we are as we make our way through the shadows.

Somehow in our egotism, we get our relationship with God all turned around. We forget which one of us is God and which isn't. We give God lists of things to do , we try to make deals with him and may even try to pull the wool over his eyes. We make him a scapegoat for our problems, blame him for our own mistakes and then whine about injustice!

The incredible thing is that God loves us anyway. Why would he care about people who behave so unlovably? Why would he invite us, again and again, to seek the dignity of wholeness? Why provide so many lessons to such slow learners? Why keep on sending help to rescue us from the pits we dig ourselves? Perhaps our is not to understand, but to be grateful.

The God of my understanding can be my anchor in stormy seas

-Believing in Myself