The thing about our attempts at self-redemption is that it's most often a grasping at fixing something that genuinely needs fixing. We see or feel a problem or lack or need in our lives, and so we go about trying to get things fixed, healed, redeemed.
But these attempts at self-redemption don't ever fully work. We're never able to quite make everything okay within ourselves.
When it comes to trusting to God's redemption in our lives, there are things that we need to do--but it's not what comes naturally. It is a real giving over, submitting, and then waiting. Waiting on God's Spirit, in God's timing, to do the real work that he knows needs to be done.
And to quote the venerable and wise 70's and 80's rocker Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part.
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Our former youth pastor preached a sermon from Philippians with "The Waiting is the Hardest Part" as his title ... don't recall the text, but I remember the song. That's all that matters, right;o) ...
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