2 lies = devastating consequences
Lie #1- Lie of autonomy. I am an independent human, my life belongs to me, and I have the right to live my life as I please.
Talk about a disaster waiting to happen! Me running my own life? Seriously?
- Solution: God created me. He owns me. I am His. I’m reminded of these words: “You are not your own; you’ve been bought with a price.”
Lie #2- Lie of self-sufficiency. I have everything within myself to be what I’m supposed to be and do what I’m supposed to do.
That’s the old self-help, pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps, Joel Osteen mentality. Yeah…as if that will work.
- Solution: Realize I was created to be in a relationship-with God and with others.
I like what Tripp says: “The self-made man is always poorly made.” Going my own way and doing my own thing = disaster. Seeing what has happened and will happen should open my eyes to the reality that I am incapable of life on my own.
“There you have it, Father. I’m a disaster without You. My life is chaos on my own. You created me; you own me. Let grace be your fingerprint on me.”
I, too, love that quote from Tripp, Bill. We are disasters without the grace and the guidance of our loving Father.
Blessings!
Totally agree Martha. I have done this way too often.
Autonomy and Self-Sufficiency –
Two lies I believed for the longest time.
Two lies I still fall back into on occasion.
Left my childhood home the first Saturday following my graduation. Paid my way through college, while working full-time and maintaining a full-time class load.
Leaned on my own understanding, my own values, my own desires to drive me…
What Tripp says is true… Autonomy (believing I am my own) is a life-destroying lie. I was created for a purpose. If I am not fulfilling that purpose, I am dying.
Self-sufficiency is the lie I chose to believe and often revert back to. As an introvert, this is a comfortable place for me. The problem is if I isolate myself for too long, I don’t grow. I don’t experience grace and don’t deliver grace…
Tripp points out… It takes an act of grace to fully see our own need for grace…
Ryan S.
As time goes on I realize the utter futility of autonomy. But that doesn’t stop the struggle. I, like you, struggle with self-sufficiency. Thanks for your honesty Ryan
Yep. Those are the lies of the enemy. Free will is easy to mistake as sovereign… but it’s a far cry from it…
Very true Floyd. Very easy to mistake