When Trusting Trumps Trying (Jim Shelburne)

We live in a “can-do, try-harder, put-everything-you’ve-got-into-it” society. And we are highly influenced by it, so we spend a whole lot of our effort trying harder in the hopes of changing the way things are or changing ourselves. The problem is that trying harder rarely works.

What would happen if instead of carrying that whole load on our own shoulders, we trusted God and surrendered to the work of His grace in our lives? Isn’t it about time we learned to believe more in Him than in ourselves?