Growing up I remember hearing the phrase, “God helps those who help themselves.” While I am not entirely sure of the source of this expression, I have come to understand it as a way of saying that in order for God to help us we have to play a part. God will not just swoop in and take over. In a cooperative relationship with God, I invite God to intervene. I have lived long enough to recognize when I need to surrender. Sometimes I do so calmly, other times it is done in a frantic request. I can tell when I have no control over something and the only thing I can do is turn it over to God. I have to let go of it to give it to God. God will not yank it out of my hand. Sometimes I have to turn it over and over again. When it comes to relationships in life, I find I have to turn things over and then later on when I get hooked again, I turn it over again. I am powerless over not being able to see love in a particular situation, so I turn that over. I am powerless over being in fear about something in my life, so I turn that over. My part of cooperating with God is in my willingness to hand it over. Sometimes when I turn it over, it comes back to me with new insight. Other times the situation or person is no longer in my life. When I get stuck in wanting to control a situation or a person’s reaction and thus modify my behavior and am not myself, it is because I fear that God will not be enough to get me through real or perceived loss. The cooperation God asks is to trust God in any situation. God desires for me to cooperate with him by knowing that the presence of love I experience in the depths of my heart during our dates or at other times, is more real than whatever I fear I losing. Sometimes it takes me a while to be willing to cooperate with God’s perspective in a situation or relationship, but when I do I find the peace that no level of fear can supersede. It is a daily practice of cooperation that I practice on our dates each morning so I can bring the spirit which is the best version of myself into my day today.
Be From Cooperation!
on February 24, 2017My prayer for us is the courage to be in cooperation with our Creator who has equipped us with all the love needed to walk through anything when we are ready to let go and see it today.
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