When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed. Criss Jami
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This quote by J.R.R. Tolkien captures the heart of the meaning of God’s sovereignty. When we can let go of our lives and turn our attention to God, we begin to receive the blessings His ways have always provided for us. When we are living in our own ways, that is when we need to question who we are really serving, God or ourselves?

Source: Killosophy

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