You are human and God is God.

I don’t know that in the moment it seems “superhuman.” It’s often classified as being responsible or even stewardship. It feels like the rightful response when tension rises, stress knocks, or you feel downright exhausted—to figure it out, to pull your bootstraps up, and to find a solution. Something quick, preferably.
But when you step back—when you take the time to zoom out on allllll that’s circling around you, where is the restlessness coming from?
There is a tendency within human nature to feel the fragility of your own strength and the limitations of your own flesh and to want to POWER UP. You try to muster up more strength or stamina and get frustrated when your body, mind, heart, or spirit won’t get on board.
OR you’re witnessing complexities around you, conflict between those close to you, or conversations where things get lost in translation and you want to FIX IT.
All too quickly, you realize that you can’t soften hearts, source strength within your own self, stimulate others to sign up for the healing process, or supersede the natural process of REST that life requires.
You discover that you were trying to be superhuman…and God let you try so that you could be reminded that’s not what He asks for or desires.
Just surrender.
Kneeprints.
A commitment to leave it at the cross.
The willingness to be misunderstood by others as long as He sees + knows.

I wonder how many of us have chronic anxiety (mislabeling it as “ministry” and “life”) because we are trying to be God in spaces where our frailty is needed.
Like a canal that leads to the reservoir of strength, the only way it can exist, function, + benefit as designed is if it realizes it was always meant to be a canal—never the source.

Good news for today: GOD IS GOD.
He is leading and loving in a trillion different ways you can’t see right now because you’re in it.

Resist the urge to try to give what you do not have; relax in His sovereignty and He will help you offer what you do have in a way that preserves you, protects others, and always points up.