Learning To Lean

Everyday we awake to a new unknown obstacle course. As each moment passes us by, there is so many choices we can make. So many trials we could face. And at any given time, a battle may arise, and threaten to take us under. But the past few months I have been learning a simple, but still yet hard task from my Savior. This lesson being, I cannot make it one day on my own. Everyday at some point I am going to desperately need Him to come and help me stand. He is simply showing me this, “Buddy, you cannot do this in your own strength. You need me! And I want to show you that I can help you in every situation. But you have got to trust me, and learn to fully lean on me… for everything.”

Leaning on Christ means to fully let go of all our human power, all our ways, and all our human devices for victory. It is when we let Him have total control. Insomuch that we say, “Lord… the very breath I breathe is in your control. If you desire for it to be cut off at this moment… I will die still trusting you. For I understand that you know the absolute best for me. It’s all in your care Lord. For as the old song says it, “I’m learning to lean, learning to lean, learning to lean on Jesus. Finding more power than I’d ever dreamed, I’m learning to lean on Jesus.”

Beloved, getting to this place will not be easy. But I truly believe we can reach this kind of faith in our Savior. So I will keep pursuing this faith in Him. For if I go by the grave, and my days are at their last, I want to be able to look at my loved ones and say, “I have learned to fully lean on my Christ. And you must also. For true peace only comes… from learning to lean”

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.