“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’” Matthew 19:26
Recently I was connecting an electronic gadget to the Internet and getting it set up. I went into the advanced settings and tried everything I could think of to try to set up the device, but it ended up creating a mess.
Eventually, after much frustration and irritation, I finally realized the Only Thing I needed to do was connect the device to the Internet and it would do the rest of the setup. I was seriously overthinking the problem.
We do the same thing with many of the problems that come into our lives. On more than one occasion God has told me to “leave it alone”, that either He would work it out, or the problem would work itself out.
But often we want to “fix” things ourselves, to figure things out on our own. And too often we make a problem worse.
While reading the Charles Stanley Study Bible I came across his suggestion that we should consider HALT before making any decisions. This acronym stands for:
H – Hunger
A – Anger
L – Loneliness
T – Tiredness
We should HALT and never make a decision when these affect our judgment.
That is good advice. It is also worth considering that many problems and challenges should be wholly placed into the hands of Jesus, and quit trying so hard to figure everything out.
We need wisdom and guidance from God to deal with all the problems in our lives, and often we need to be patient and trust the situation to God.
My State’s motto is “with God all things are possible.”
I can’t think of a better motto. When we trust God with our problems, giving our challenges completely to Him, the pressure and stress of our difficulties are placed into the care of the One who can actually do something about them.
When we have done all we can, we need to let God do the rest.
Prayer: Dear Lord, help us to know when to act, how to act, and when to simply give our problems completely over to You. Amen.
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