One thing I had to admit during our Light House session is that I’ve trusted myself more times than I probably realized.
And it doesn’t always look like saying, “I don’t need God.”
Sometimes I want to control how something is going to happen.
Sometimes I think I have to figure everything out.
Sometimes fear comes because I’m looking at whether Samuel can handle what’s coming instead of remembering Who is walking with me.
And sometimes God can be sending help, but because it doesn’t look the way I thought the help should come, I can miss it.
That’s why Luke 18:9–14 is so challenging.
The Pharisee did religious things. He fasted. He gave. He prayed.
But Jesus said he “trusted in himself that he was righteous.”
The publican came with nothing to brag about. He simply asked:
“God be merciful to me a sinner.”
And Jesus said he went home justified.
That reminds me that my confidence can’t be in what I’ve accomplished, how much I know, how strong I am, or even how religious I can be.
My confidence has to be in Christ.
I’ve failed myself before.
God has never failed me.
So I’m continuing to ask myself the same question we discussed together:
Who am I really trusting?
One thing I had to admit during our Light House session is that I’ve trusted myself more times than I probably realized.
And it doesn’t always look like saying, “I don’t need God.”
Sometimes I want to control how something is going to happen.
Sometimes I think I have to figure everything out.
Sometimes fear comes because I’m looking at whether Samuel can handle what’s coming instead of remembering Who is walking with me.
And sometimes God can be sending help, but because it doesn’t look the way I thought the help should come, I can miss it.
That’s why Luke 18:9–14 is so challenging.
The Pharisee did religious things. He fasted. He gave. He prayed.
But Jesus said he “trusted in himself that he was righteous.”
The publican came with nothing to brag about. He simply asked:
“God be merciful to me a sinner.”
And Jesus said he went home justified.
That reminds me that my confidence can’t be in what I’ve accomplished, how much I know, how strong I am, or even how religious I can be.
My confidence has to be in Christ.
I’ve failed myself before.
God has never failed me.
So I’m continuing to ask myself the same question we discussed together:
Who am I really trusting?
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The Light of the Lord shines on me, lives in me, and passes through me to others.
