Declaration of Dependence
Without Me you can do nothing. —John 15:5
Adults celebrate when children learn to do something on their own: get dressed, brush their teeth, tie shoelaces, ride a bike, walk to school.
As adults, we like to pay our own way, live in our own houses, make our own decisions, rely on no outside help. Faced with an unexpected challenge, we seek out “self-help” books. All the while we are systematically sealing off the heart attitude most desirable to God and most descriptive of our true state in the universe. It’s what Jesus told His disciples: “Without Me you can do nothing” (
John 15:5).
The truth is that we live in a web of dependence, at the centre of which is God, in whom all things hold together. Norwegian theologian Ole Hallesby settled on the single word helplessness as the best summary of the heart attitude that God accepts as prayer. He said, “Only he who is helpless can truly pray.”
Most parents feel a pang when the child outgrows dependence, even while knowing the growth to be healthy and normal. With God, the rules change. We never outgrow dependence, and to the extent we think we do, we delude ourselves. Prayer is our declaration of dependence upon the Lord. — Philip Yancey
Give Him each perplexing problem,
All your needs to Him make known;
Bring to Him your daily burdens —
Never carry them alone! — Adams
Pray as if your life depended upon it. It does!
Source ODB.ORG
Bible in a year: Jeremiah 9-11; 1 Timothy 6
PRAISE GOD
BLESSED BE THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
Without Me you can do nothing. —John 15:5
Adults celebrate when children learn to do something on their own: get dressed, brush their teeth, tie shoelaces, ride a bike, walk to school.
As adults, we like to pay our own way, live in our own houses, make our own decisions, rely on no outside help. Faced with an unexpected challenge, we seek out “self-help” books. All the while we are systematically sealing off the heart attitude most desirable to God and most descriptive of our true state in the universe. It’s what Jesus told His disciples: “Without Me you can do nothing” (
John 15:5).
The truth is that we live in a web of dependence, at the centre of which is God, in whom all things hold together. Norwegian theologian Ole Hallesby settled on the single word helplessness as the best summary of the heart attitude that God accepts as prayer. He said, “Only he who is helpless can truly pray.”
Most parents feel a pang when the child outgrows dependence, even while knowing the growth to be healthy and normal. With God, the rules change. We never outgrow dependence, and to the extent we think we do, we delude ourselves. Prayer is our declaration of dependence upon the Lord. — Philip Yancey
Give Him each perplexing problem,
All your needs to Him make known;
Bring to Him your daily burdens —
Never carry them alone! — Adams
Pray as if your life depended upon it. It does!
Source ODB.ORG
Bible in a year: Jeremiah 9-11; 1 Timothy 6
PRAISE GOD
BLESSED BE THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
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Our Father in Heaven
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
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