The Perfect Outcome.

It's not that you didn't pray hard enough, didn't study the Word long enough, didn't do your part well enough, that made it so hard. That made you so exhausted, so worn out, so bone-tired. Never! It's not your lacking that resulted in the outcome you saw. Not at all!

Why do you carry the load of responsibility?

And whoever said prayer would make life easy? Who said knowing Scripture would make life care-free? Who said good deeds would really fill you up? Who said it? As if there is a protocol to follow to make yourself fully satisfied and always successful. As if! Would not everyone then follow it?

So, why do you expect the results to be just so when the journey to get there isn't just so? Why do you expect perfect outcomes from imperfect people who live in a broken, fallen, imperfect world?

And how dare us to say what is to be the perfect outcome anyways?

Because it's true!
Prayer will make your life meaningful and purposeful, like God created you to be, in communion with Him!
The Scriptures, God's very Word will make your life alive, like God intended you to be, breathing in Him!
And your acts of faith, your deeds done to the Father, they will make your one life abundantly free, exactly like God promised you to be, overflowing His grace!

Exactly like He promised!

For your surrender, your looking up, your abiding, that is all that God desires of you. And your surrender to Him becomes your dependency on Him.

So that the results, He takes responsibility for, and credit for, and all the glory for. As only He can work all things out for your good. For His glory! Amen!

Because that, is the perfect outcome to a broken, fallen, imperfect life - complete dependency, on Him!

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"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." - Romans 8:28

"Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! ... For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen." - Romans 11:33, 36