Psalm 127:1 Unless the LORD builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the LORD watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain. (HCBS)
What might you be doing that, on the surface looks like a labor of love, but because the Lord is not in it, it is going nowhere? I think we do these kinds of things more often than we want to admit. We oftentimes have a plan, execute the plan and then ask the Lord to join us and bless it. A recent Bible study I was in indicated that thinking is exactly backwards. We need to find out where the Lord is working and join Him.
Could this backward thinking be costing us time and effort? Could it even cause us to be a little disgruntled with God for not enabling our success? (After all, one would think if it is a Christian activity he/she is involved in, then the Lord should not only be in it, but guarantee its success.) Just as Moses told the Lord that if He wasn't accompanying the Israelites, then Moses wouldn't go, we need to have the same attitude - If the Lord is not in it, we don't want to be either.
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