{"id":7293,"date":"2020-09-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communitychurchministry.com\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2020-08-02T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T14:31:17","slug":"you-are-trying-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communitychurchministry.com\/?p=7293","title":{"rendered":"You Are Trying Too Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You Are Trying Too Hard&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cO Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+131&amp;version=YLT\">\u202d\u202dPsalm\u202c \u202d131:1\u202c \u202d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many times have you spent recently trying to figure things out. Why is all this stuff happening? What is the solution? Am I doing enough?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The human mind is an amazing creation of God. The average person fails to fully unlock it&#8217;s potential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we are human. Our minds don&#8217;t know everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That can be frustrating sometimes, when we try and try to figure something out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The psalmist realizes he doesn&#8217;t know everything.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has the right attitude.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His heart is not &#8220;lifted up.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The psalmist has the right perspective about himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My eyes are not raised too high.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A blogger who calls himself &#8220;Pastor Peter&#8221; explains it this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My eyes are not raised too high.&nbsp; In other words, I do not live with grand illusions about me or grand expectations of me, what I can do, or my life.&nbsp; It is not that we have low expectations but that we know ourselves, we know the world, and, most of all, we know Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proper perspective the psalmist has leads him to &#8220;not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He realizes that he won&#8217;t understand everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, we become comfortable in our own skin, knowing our limitations, and realizing that we can&#8217;t figure everything out, we rest in Him. God is all knowing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u202d\u202dPsalm\u202c \u202d131:2\u202c \u202d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are troubled today, and you can&#8217;t figure things out. Bring God your burdens, rest in Him, and listen for His still small voice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrust in the Lord with all your heart, and <a href=\"https:\/\/communitychurchministry.com\/?p=7289\">DO NOT LEAN TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u202d\u202dProverbs\u202c \u202d3:5-6\u202c \u202d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You Are Trying Too Hard&#8221; \u201cO Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.\u201d \u202d\u202dPsalm\u202c \u202d131:1\u202c \u202d How many times have you spent recently trying to figure things out. Why is all this stuff happening? 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