People want to make the faith man-centric and make God serve our purposes. It is the other way around. The Gospel is God-centric and we serve His purposes. We serve at His pleasure. We are weak, He is strong. We are inadequate, He is our adequacy. We are insufficient, He is all-sufficient. It is the danger of self-reliance.
Self-reliance lulls us into thinking, quite deceptively, that we are in control. We make it happen, we hold the keys to our destiny. While we are called by God to dependently and decisively take action in the realms in which we operate, we are not to go independent from Him. We are always dependent on Him for everything. He is the giver of every good and perfect gift. Jesus said, "apart from Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
"Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God." (2 Cor. 3:5)
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