Trusting God Day By Day: 365 Daily Devotions - Plot & Excerpts
MATTHEW 16:8 If you want to have joy, you must stop trying to figure everything out. You must stop rolling your problems around in your mind. You have to quit anxiously searching for an answer to your situation, trying to find out what you should do about it. When Jesus saw that His disciples were trying to “figure out” what to do about the fact they had forgotten to bring bread to feed the crowd, He said to them, “O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves?” (Matt. 16:8 KJV). I spent many years attempting to solve my own problems and finally discovered that it is not God’s will for me to do that. All my efforts did was make me frustrated and more selfish and self-centered. I focused on myself and expected everyone else to focus on me, too. I looked to others (and myself) to do for me what only God could do. We reason and try to figure things out, asking, “Why, God, why?” and “When, God, when?” We want to know the answers to our situations so we won’t have to trust God.
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