The Bible is packed with stories of situations beyond someone’s ability to manage, situations in which people were forced to embrace or abandon God’s plan. A.W. Tozer wrote, “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.” Deep stuff, but true. Dr. Alan Redpath said, “When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible individual and crushes him.” God will root out escapism, sarcasm, arrogance, turf protection, or self-pity. To accomplish it, He strikes fatal blows to the heart of “me.” On a daily basis He makes a clarion call to funerals. Paul said, “I die daily,” with the result being the matchless adventure of life in Jesus. God is simply not in the business of calling perfect, self-actualized, got-it-all-together people.
God works best when you are not wholly abandoned to impacting your world, but wholly abandoned to God. Jesus said, “If you save your life, you’ll lose it, but if you lose your life for my sake and the gospel, you’ll find it.”
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