When it comes to life, trying to do it yourself never works out so well. But the good news is that God didn’t design you to do this life on your own. You can’t do it without Him! In today’s short video, Pam takes you to 2 Corinthians, where you’ll discover your loving Father who is your adequacy.
DIY - Do it yourself. It’s not a phrase I like to hear anymore. I used to do a lot of projects myself, but most of them turned out disastrous! Can you relate? The paint job is a mess, the faucet still leaks - my projects just never worked out in reality like it did for the guy on the Youtube video. Oftentimes I had to do it myself because it wasn’t in the budget to hire a professional. I simply did the best I could in my own strength.
Over time, I’ve learned that when it comes to life, if you do it yourself, it doesn't always work out so well. One reason for that is,
God did NOT design us to do life on our own.
I was married for a number of years, and I tried to do my life, and my marriage, on my own the way I thought was best. I'm not sure I always included God on how to be in relationship, and it failed miserably.
We often find ourselves trying to do life ourselves, in our own strength and it just doesn't work. It’s God who is the Giver of Life. It’s God who is the One who wants us to live life abundantly. It’s God who is our adequacy.
One day, I was reading 2 Corinthians and I came across a passage that blew me away. It says, “Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 (NASB) I’ve read the Bible many times and I had never seen this before! God is my adequacy! You and I are not adequate in and of ourselves, but we are adequate as servants of God, not through the law of course, but through the Spirit.
God makes you adequate.
There have been so many times in my life that I've failed at things - I didn't know how to do them. There was even a time when I was trying to do accounting, I had made a mistake and I said, “God, I can't do this!” And He actually showed me the answer. God knows accounting! He knows how to paint, He knows how to do relationships, He knows how to parent and how to be a spouse and a friend. He is your adequacy. And when you depend on Him for your adequacy, He joins you through your personality to be the person He's called you to be in all of your relationships.
Let's save the DIY projects for the house and not for doing life.