I trust Your work Lord!

for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.~Philippians 2:13

It is God who works in me to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.   Even with all that I have come to know and understand about God, I sometimes still forget that the work that is being done in me is being completed by the One who can not, does not and will not fail.  In all my getting and desire to be pleasing to God I can get ensnared into the trap of thinking that it’s all on me.  That I am the one who is responsible for the outcomes of the missions that God sends me on.  I can forget that my work, the real work, is trusting and believing in God.  My work is not to change hearts and minds.  My work is not to be perfect.  My work is not to be holy.  My work is to seek the One that is Holy( Matthew 6:33)because when I seek Him, stand in His presence, and stay in His presence I am changed and the result will be a holy life. My work is to worship Him in Spirit and in truth( John 4:24).

There is no way you can stand before God and not be changed.  He is God!  He lives in me and when I get out of the way.  When I remove my agenda of wanting to be this perfect representation of what  I think a godly woman should like and just sit at His feet then I become the clay that He can mold; the clay that He can transform into the image that represents Him.  I have to and must learn to trust His work and not my own.  

This is not always an easy task for someone who has been wired to achieve and excel.  For someone who has had an habit placing her identity in what she does and does not do rather than in what He does.  But it is possible in Christ Jesus because He is the One doing the work in me.  He is the One who works in me to speak to the hearts of others, but He is the one that changes them because all power belongs to God ( Psalm 62:11). He is the One who takes nothing and turns it into something great.  This is why all the glory belongs to Him because He is glory.  He does the work and lets me to participate by allowing me  to humbly submit to His will.  

He is the One who works in me to think a new way and do a new thing.  I can trust Him.  I can trust Him to free me from the traps of discouragement and inadequacy that enemy sets for me.  I can trust Him with my life because He is the way, the truth, and the life( John 14:6). It is God who works in me  to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.  I trust Your work Lord ( Philippians 2:13).

Father, I trust your work Lord.  I trust You.  Empty me of myself and my agendas and fill me with Your Spirit.  I am ready for whatever You have for me today because You have already declared it done.  My trust is not what I see with m