I have been writing this since June. This is very important so please do not read this until you have some time.

From the very first time that we are able to hear we are told that we do both good and bad things and there is always a negative and positive response that is given with each one so we learn what it is good and bad to do. And a positive response is what we learn to seek. And the desire for a positive response becomes the reason that we do everything in our life from that point on.

And nothing feels better than when someone says “You have done a very good job and I’m proud of you”. Nothing! They may also give you a promotion or raise or hire you. And that feels good. You are worth something and you are successful.

However deadlines and expectations do pull you in a destination to follow them and that may not be where you really need to be. Sure you may make hose deadlines or meet those expectations but those are not God’s. If He had them in the first place then He would not have come to this Earth because we were all failures. No, he has told us what He wants and these are not deadlines or expectations. We had already missed deadlines and not met expectations. God knows each of us completely and He loves each one of us.

All forms of life support what it wants us to do and so we learn that WE can make decisions all by ourselves and we become fully self sufficient. Yes we can and do make decisions for ourselves but we are not fully sufficient-ever.

If we were then why would God have written His word for us? We wouldn’t need it!

But how often does anyone say that to God? He gave you grace and you did nothing to earn it. That’s what “Free Gift” means. And He forgave you as the Bible says “Once and for all”. So that is incredibly special but we instead try so hard to please men and that becomes our main focus and that’s all that we think about.

But He will always have the things that we need to learn and we can always learn something from Him.

We may have very good lives but we are not self sufficient. If we think that we are then it will only work for this world because He is running the world after this. That’s why God is our Father and we need His input and guidance in everything we do.

This world that we live in (Earth) is being run by Satan. So as odd as it seems this world tries very hard to make us self sufficient people. Which is more obvious than you think because the Bible clearly states that Satan has always thought that he was better than God and that’s why he was removed from Heaven, he didn’t leave he was removed by God. But God being who He is gave Satan the Earth to run so he runs it with his ideas and without God.

So that is what you’ve always been taught and it’s how you live.

To be successful you are told that you must be self sufficient. What measure of success defines a need for and constant use of God? Duh, there isn’t one that does.

And Satan doesn’t buy the power of God even though God created him. So as a human who lives for God you have to make your life stand still and ask yourself some big questions several times regarding everything you do:
Why are you doing it?
Who benefits from it?
Have you talked to God about it?
Have you listened to God?
Are you serving God by doing this?

Believe me this will be hard, especially if you detect the wrong thing but there will come a time when you’ll be glad that you did it!

It is different from what you see and think that you know but it IS God’s way. And coming from where I’ve come from I know that this is true and I’m writing it for your benefit because I have learned it and I live this way.

This is an extremely difficult thing for a human in this world to do. Your focus has to permanently change from you to God. It has not been easy for me to do this and I assure you that other people do not find me attractive in any way but I have done it through the grace of God and you can too!

Your focus has to shift from what you can see to what you can’t see. Just read God’s word and believe it and live by it. You WILL NOT GO WRONG! But if you follow the way of this world YOU WILL GO WRONG. It’s up to you.

This causes you to look at everything that you have been taught but the rewards for doing so are more than we can name.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and the Bible says that no one goes to Heaven without faith. And faith is more than just a mindset.