A Piece From "Building A Relationship With God"

 Hello Everybody! I know it has been a minute since I lasted post but fear not! I have not stopped blogging. God has brought in a new venture, I am writing a book!! I am really excited to share with you all a piece of what I have written so far. I hope you like it and I pray you're inspired by it.

 Most of us believe we know what’s best for us. We know how to do everything. Don’t believe me? I have the perfect analogy.

  Its like trying to put a bike together. You think just because you’ve seen a bike before and rode one; you know how to put one together. So you throw the directions to the side. You began to put this bike together. You’re shoving together parts because they “look” like they are in the right place. You finally get the bike standing and you try to ride it. You take a stroll around the block and the whole thing falls apart. You get frustrated but you continue to put this bike together. You ask people what they think about the model of the bike and if they have any suggestions. You try and ride the bike a second time and it falls apart yet again. Now you’re really mad. You feel like nobody knows what they are talking about, only you know what’s best for you and *your* bike. You put the bike together for a third time and you are faced with the same results. The bike is in front of you in pieces. You’re upset because you have put your all into this. You FINALLY decide that you should look back at the direction. You realize that you started putting the bike together all wrong. You had the wrong screws, the front tire was supposed to be in the back; you just realize that you had no idea what you were doing in the first place. But because you *thought* you knew you jumped in and ruined a perfectly good bike and wasted a bunch of time and effort.

 It’s the same way with God. God has all the directions all the answer that we need but because we feel like we *know everything*...we don’t have to go back and ask him; “God, is this your plan for me? Am I even ready to do this? God how do I even do this?” Then we wonder why it won’t work. We sit there and ask God to mend and fix a mess we made, a mess that could have been avoided. Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) says, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’”  So why do we think that God will lead us in the wrong direction? We as Christians are so busy trying to be a friend to God and have God as our friend and we aren’t even qualified to call ourselves that. We aren’t even on that level with God.