Are We Self-Sufficient?????????????

Human beings need one another as no man is an Island. We depend on each other for various reasons and motives. The human society has grown it is because we always valued the support and help of each other. The exchange of values, principles, wisdom, expertise, knowledge and material prosperity with each other has brought us to developed stage. The role of our teachers, parents, relatives, masters, gurus have shaped and formed us to be what we are today. Their valuable and precious guidance has given us a sense of purpose in life. Why have they spent themselves on us? Why did they make those huge sacrifices for us at the cost of losing themselves? It is because we are incomplete, imperfect and insufficient.

 Left to ourselves we will not be what we would like to be. Look at the poor nations cannot exist if they do not depend on rich nations. They know their limitations and weaknesses in their nations which will not allow them to feed and be self-sufficient. This is all at the human level. Inter-personal relationships and inter-dependence which leads to human sufficiency and development.

But there is another higher and superior level and that is spiritual level without which we can do nothing, achieve nothing, arrive nowhere. If we move ahead with the Lord or supernatural then we know the consequences. When we put ourselves in His place and try to be gods, the end result is destruction and losing the directions in our endevours. We end up creating a mess in personal and communal life, there abounds evil which eats and destroys the creator. 

We dishonour Him and we are flattened because without His wisdom we do not proceed nowhere though we glory in our achievements. What sense does it make to exalt our tainted and broken human nature and cast down the power of God in our lives. We have become robbers by assigning all the credits to ourselves, we are like false prophets. The false prophets downplay the role and place of a true God, glorifies himself at the cost of God. 

We are not self-sufficient. We need humility to accept the power and glory of God in all that we are. We are created and exist for a reason, purpose and mission, so we need to accept the plan and program of God. We need to accept the light of the Saviour and dispel the darkeness within and without. We have achieved and done nothing to be proud and take glory upon ourselves. 

All what we are and have is given to us. We are clays and He is the Potter…Let us be vessels for God’s glory and not for our own. In humility let us learn lessons…never believe too much in ourselves….let us lean on Him…..bow down and kneel before…trust and open our hearts and souls to Him….