Getting my 3 year old son ready in the morning should be a relatively simple and quick process. However, it normally turns into a frustrating and unnecessarily long project. Why? Because he wants to "do it by myself." And also because he "knows how."
He can button his shirt, so he says. Somehow he ignores the fact that his small, weak and uncoordinated fingers will drag what should be a 30 second process out to 5 minute ordeal, that at the end of it, he's frustrated, I'm irritated and 4 buttons are still left undone.
He also tells me he can pour his own juice. That is, however, right before he tells me he can get his own paper towel to clean the juice up from the kitchen floor.
He can brush his own teeth, cut his own meat, unbuckle his own car seat, and about 1000 other things. It never dawns on him that his breath still stinks, his meat is whole but his paper plate is cut and that I've unloaded all the groceries and the baby while he still struggles with the latch. Sometimes I feel like putting my hands on his face until his lips pooch out, looking him square in his eyes and telling him, " Let me do it because I do it faster and better than you."
I believe God wants to put his holy hands on some of our frustrated faces and let us know the same. Are you like my son, constantly trying to help God work things out for you? Does God begin to work in your life and you intervene because you think you know or can do better?
Was God opening doors for a job promotion, but you wanted more money right then, and took a job that you now hate? Were you tired of being single and started dating the wrong guy that has left you broken? Were you trying to loose weight and got frustrated with the slow process and tried a method or pill that has left you ill?
What is the issue in your life, that you keep "helping God do", without realizing that if you just let Him do it, He would do it faster and better than you ever could?
I don't know about you, but I am trading in my badge of independence for a blanket of security. I am smart enough to say, "Daddy, can you help me please." Or better yet, "Daddy, can you do this?"
Psalms 46:10 Cease striving and know that I am God.
