3rd Shift Thoughts

The other night while wrapping up our bedtime routine, my daughter surprised me by kneeling bedside to pray. I am not sure when she learned this because I know I have never done that particular prayer posture with her, or even myself in the last few years. And I don't think she read Josh Griffin's blog post on the various prayer postures...those familiar with that or with Doug Fields and Simply Youth Ministry are probably laughing right now :-)

At any rate, I digress, God has been reminding me a lot about Himself and how simple our relationship with Him really is. And He as been using my own daughter to do it. As humans, we can't stand on our knees. Yes that was intentional. When we are our our knees we feel weak, vulnerable, dependant. That concept is contrary to everything we are taught. From childhood we are taught to be strong, not to give in, to stand our our own two feet, to allow others to be dependant on us, to be respected, wealthy, powerful, INdependent.

So when all that fades away or someone sweeps our feet out from under us because they are competing against us, what are we left with?

Instead we need to totally rebuild our thinking to this simple fact: we are strongest when we are on our knees, totally dependant on God and seeking His perfect power because....
GOD IS GOD............we are not.