Fourth, learn to relax in faith.<\/i> Notice how God responded to Jehoshaphat\u2019s prayer: \u2018The battle is not yours, but God\u2019s.\u2019<\/i> Many of us wear ourselves out trying to fight God\u2019s battles in our own strength. In the initial flush of becoming Christians, we\u2019re eager to win the world to Jesus, and want to go out and single-handedly bring about His Kingdom. That\u2019s because we don\u2019t realise what\u2019s involved. Then after we\u2019ve worked hard under our own steam, reality sets in. We end up crawling back on our hands and knees, disappointed, because we think we\u2019ve let God down. But He reassures us, \u2018You didn\u2019t let Me down, because you weren\u2019t holding Me up.\u2019 <\/p>\n
The truth is, we don\u2019t hold God up\u2014He holds us up! We don\u2019t have Him in our hands, He has us in His hands! And He\u2019s telling us to relax in faith and let Him do the work through us. Paul wrote, \u2018As you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him.\u2019<\/i> (Colossians 2:6 NIV) <\/p>\n
In other words, remember how you first became a believer\u2014by simple faith in the finished work of Christ\u2014and continue to live by simple faith. You didn\u2019t become a Christian by striving for perfection and doing good works. Good works have nothing to do with it! Salvation is a free gift. God doesn\u2019t need us to micromanage things; He has everything under control, and He wants us to relax and let Him live through us. Bottom line: victory in life is a gift from God! \u2018Thank God, who always leads us in victory because of Christ.\u2019<\/i> (2 Corinthians 2:14 GWT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fourth, learn to relax in faith. Notice how God responded to Jehoshaphat\u2019s prayer: \u2018The battle is not yours, but God\u2019s.\u2019 Many of us wear ourselves out trying to fight God\u2019s battles in our own strength. In the initial flush of becoming Christians, we\u2019re eager to win the world to Jesus, and want to go out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}