Self-sufficiency is a statement of pride.  It’s the belief that whatever is going on and whatever we are facing or are trying to do is going to happen because of us.  It says that I am more than enough by myself and, “I’ve got this.”

While self-sufficiency is a mark of pride, I see it also as a teller of fear.  The fear to let go.  The fear to give up control.  The fear to not let another in your world to help you along the way because nobody can do it like you can and it’s hard to invest the word “trust” into someone else.

But, as a child of God, all that we have in our relationship with Him, is based on trust.  That’s why it’s considered a walk of faith.  Faith doesn’t know all the answers for today, better yet tomorrow.  Faith can’t really grasp exactly how this is all going to turn out, but faith just presses on.  Even though it doesn’t know all the ins and outs of everything, faith just continues to believe.

It believes in the One in whom the trust is deposited more than anything else.  It is sure that somehow, someway, God is going to turn this thing around and make “all things work together for good,” (Romans 8:28).  This faith is so confident that it knows that we can prepare for and learn about how to win in the day of battle; we can go through all the steps and check off the lists to each one that will secure our victory – but, ultimately it all means nothing because our “deliverance is of the LORD,” (Proverbs 21:31, NKJV).

It’s good to be proactive in life and want to get things done, for God has never been a promoter of the lazy and lackadaisical.  But in our pursuit to “do,” we have to make sure we “don’t.”  Don’t give pride a foothold and don’t believe more in self, than God.  For only in Him and with Him can our true deliverance be found.