My little addition to Our Daily Bread (8/25/11):
But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.
Henry Ford said “If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.” * This quote was often used in my public school upbringing to support the “power of positive thinking” ideology they wanted us to embrace. God, though, made us and desires to be a part of our lives. Paul’s repeated requests to be freed from His tormenting “thorn in the flesh” were answered with a “trust Me.” Likewise, He allows our lives to have hurdles and hindrances to remind us that we can, but not on our own. Just as my three-year-old reminds me, our Heavenly Father longs for us to take our tear-stained cheeks, turn to Him, hold up that that thing we just can get to work, and say “Help me, Daddy.”
Because of those times in public school, I thought Henry Ford was a false prophet of the “self-made man” myth, until I read another of his quotes:
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about? *
Andy Jentes
* Quotes from BrainyQuotes
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