Me: Your friend looks sad Prodigal!
Prodigal: She eats sorrow by the spoonful.
Me: Well maybe I can encourage her.
This is from the book Beyond Our Selves by Catherine Marshall
I learned that when achievement has come because of our helplessness linked to God’s power, it has a rightness about it that no amount of self-inspired striving can have. Furthermore, when achievement comes this way, it does not bear in it the seeds of increasing egocentricity that success sometimes brings. Because we know that ideas and the ability to implement them flowed into us from somewhere beyond our selves, we can be objective about our good fortune.
Since then God has never allowed me the fulfillment of a soul’s sincere desire without first putting me through an acute realization of my inadequacy and my need for help.
I feel so helpless right now. How do I stop from feeling discouraged in my helplessness? I believe you have to pray and believe God’s promises. Lord I pray that you will help me this day to focus on you and you alone. Do not let me focus on the things of this world.
1 Corinthians 15:27
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
