Sometimes Christians become addicted to God’s validation. They live their lives unplanned so that through favorable circumstances they might feel God’s approval and blessing. When all effort could have only been from God, then surely the right outcome was His doing.
These are simple-minded people, never learning wisdom because they lack understanding of the role of responsibility. Child-like, they depend on God and others, while the mature carry their own burdens and other’s also (Gal 6:2-5).
Though God’s blessings are tireless, He sees when we try to force His hand. God is not ignorant of the effort we put into our lives. His intent is that we know the fullness of His love and appreciation for us. It would be a shallow existence for us to only experience validation from God, and foolishness on our part to believe that every good outcome is the only expression of His love for us.
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Eph 3:18-19)
God’s ultimate purpose then is that, knowing His love, we also would love others, not seeing our need only but our brother’s also. Amen.
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