Say what?!? Hearing & Accepting God's Call

Author’s Last Name / 1-2 Words from Title / 13 with Him. A great example of this happened one day after a trip to the grocery store. My five year old son wanted to help me carry some of the bags. He grabbed a bag containing a couple of heavy orange juice bottles from the back of the car, and he attempted to lift it. When I saw him struggling to get the bag out of the trunk, I offered him to bag containing the two loaves of bread in exchange for the bag containing the orange juice. He quickly took the bread bag from the car to the kitchen. He never looked back. Too often we expect to have to do the heavy lifting, trying to do things on our own. God is offering us a better way, but instead of us exchanging our heavy load for His light one, we sometimes refuse to let go of the heavy load. Sometimes we let go momentarily and then pick up the load again. Or we even attempt to “help” God carry it. Just think about how foolish it would seem for my young son to “help” me carry a heavy load. I am sure that his “assistance” would be more like a hindrance, slowing my progress as compared with me handling it alone. God wants us to let Him be our father. He wants to take care of us. Be He will not force us into submission.