God’s Difficult Lessons
Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts. (Zechariah 4:6) We are made in the image of God; therefore, we are the most capable living creatures on earth. Even still, human ingenuity has no place in God's plans for His children, and this is a difficult lesson to learn. The Lord has been so kind to bless us with the gifts of intelligence, creativity, health, strength, and free will. Along with this endowment comes grave responsibilities, and the child of God must learn to steward these gifts with a constant focus on the Lordship of Jesus Christ. In other words, we are never to exercise our gifts independent of the Lord. God's ways and thoughts are above ours, and we must believe His way is the only way. Our thoughts and ways are only pleasing to Him when we have asked for and received the Mind of Christ. Our greatest successes and failures depend strictly on the choices we make to exercise faith or walk in worldly wisdom and human ...