The Connection

The Lord wants a connection with His people. He doesn't want us to do the work completely on our own, He doesn't want us to move ahead of him, and He does not want us to lag behind. He wants our cooperation in completing the work He has begun in us.

When we lose our focus on Him and we try to fix the problem ourselves or we cannot see when He will fulfill His promise to us, so we move ahead of Him, thinking we are helping. All of a sudden we find ourselves in the middle of disasters, confusion, and bewilderment. It is at those very times when we let go that He then will reach down and pull us up. He can and will connect us back to Him when we let go of our plans and allow His plans to shine through you. It's our willingness to surrender ourselves for His purposes. This is a statement I read that sums it all up:

The Lord has a great work to be done, and He will bequeath the most in the future life to those who do the most faithful, willing service in the present life. The Lord chooses His own agents, and each day under different circumstances, He gives them a trial in His plan of operation. In each truehearted endeavor to work out His plan, He chooses His agents, not because they are perfect but because, through a connection with Him, they may gain perfection. (BLJ 277.2)