We Need To Become Less

"He must become greater, I must become less." John 3:30

 Today, I want to ask you to do something. Something that, I would imagine would be somewhat hard for some out there today. It is something that, in my opinion, we do not tend to consider when it comes to faith and our prayer lives. So, what is it that I want you to do? I want you, my friend, to become less.

 Become less? Well, how exactly do we begin to do that? Well you see, I think that in our prayer lives and in our faith, we look at ourselves as being able to control the situation. We look at ourselves as being able to calm it all and figure it all out. We think that we can figure out where it that we have to go and how to get there, but my friend, we can't do any of those things, at least not on our own as we are assuming we can. You see, if we keep trying to control, figure out, and calm everything, and if we think that we have the capabilities to do so, then there is no room for God to come in and work in our lives. There is no room for Him to actually do these things that we are merely attempting to do. 

 Read the verse up above once more. Notice that, not only does it say that we should become less in our lives, but that God should become greater. We need to stop thinking that we have the control that only God truly has. We need to trust Him with every situation in our lives, rather than taking the weight upon our shoulders. We need to become less in His presence, letting HIm take care of us, our situations, and our lives.

 Now, for Him to become greater, we need to trust Him. We need to believe that He can calm the waves of this situation, that He can get us to where we need to be, and if He doesn't, we just need to trust Him all the more that He has something better in store, and that there was a reason that we weren't directed down that path or why those waves weren't calmed in our life.

 So today, I want you to step into this new level of trust with God. Go to Him today with open arms, giving Him your all, giving Him the control that you have been holding on to, and most of all, giving Him your trust.