Temptation

As the Kaleo Nashville official ''kick-off" weekend approaches pretty quickly, there is sooo much that needs to be done. I could continually spend every moment of the day running like a chicken with his head cut off doing doing doing. And yet more would need to get done, or atleast thats the way I tend to feel. I think in all this though the temptation is to believe that we are the ones 'making' Kaleo happen in the first place. Which I am happy to say is a lie from sheol...
It can be such a huge temptation though to try to make everything happen on our own, to work harder and faster, to make as many phone calls as possible, to do, and worry worry worry.
But I am learning more that we must continually, take steps back and say, "God, this is about You, this is about Your Kingdom, and not about us or anything we are even capable of doing."
To be at that place in body and heart to say, "Lord, if you don't show up this whole thing is going down." There is nothing we can do to make Kaleo Nashville happen. Ofcourse we aren't sitting on our butts waiting on a miracle, but at the same time we can't believe we can 'work' it into existance. The only reason we do anything at all is because we feel called by God to do. We are participants in His story and plan. He isn't a participant in ours. It's all His, He is the One who makes it all happen the way He wants it to. However that may be. Temptation says to us, "work harder, make it all happen! If you want it to be successful you have to work harder at it!"
I praise God that we can say that the only way anything will ever be successful is if God does it and not us!


"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat- for He grants sleep to those He loves." Psalm 127