life except You, Jesus. News, politics, my health, stock market, bond market, talking heads predicting the future. When my eyes are fixed on these other sovereignties, I feel ALONE, like my life is UP TO ME to know how to navigate through everything. And because You’ve grown me so-much-more self-aware these days, I’m easily overwhelmed, especially when I feel lousy. But when Your Spirit freshly convicts me of my INdependence, I’m freshly undone, contrite, happily clueless-I-know-what’s-best-but-trusting-You-do, curious and expectant to see what You do NEXT, in me, others, circumstances. Ahhh. The future is not up to me, but up to You.
— Dave McCarty, GospelFriendships, always needing fresh conviction of the sin of INdependence, so he might have something seculars actually want
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