Not so good... but good

... this week was an ultimate failure, lol... I did not wake up early one day, sadly I woke up later this week than any other.  

Strange.

Despite my failure, I learned that I cannot do anything pleasing to God in my own strength, which is really what I was trying to do.

I also learned that I have a problem with trying things that are challenging... So if I feel like I wont do it well, I wont want to do it all...  forgetting that God's power is perfected in my weakness.  

So prideful, I am...  

Well anyways, I woke up this morning very discouraged and found myself on Carolyn Mahaney's blog.  I came across this quote in my wandering around her site; it was most encouraging in the midst of my failure, its good to know that God expects me to do one thing and only one thing, to depend on him, moment by moment to please Him... 

"Yet the duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves.  Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is a law of grace.  When we recognize it is impossible for us to perform a duty in our own strength, we will discover the secret of its accomplishment.  But alas, this is a secret we often fail to discover."

There is always something new to learn, always...