As you probably already know I'm really into snowboarding. A few weeks ago was I started to care a lot about what I could do and what I needed to work on to achieve my goals. I wanted to get better at snowboarding. I wanted to get more famous. But, however much I tried to get better at snowboarding and land tricks I just couldn't do it.
Through that inability God showed me that He is the one who made me. He is the one who gave me the skills to snowboard. He is the one who allows me to be able to land tricks. He is the one who gave me the passion to snowboard and get better at it.
However, then when I would finally land a trick or do something right I would think I was pretty good at snowboarding. I began to worship an idol. The idol of my own abilities. I should instead worship God who gave me those abilities.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
This is your life, but God is the one who gave it to you. Will we use our lives for him? Will I use my snowboarding abilities for God or my own selfish gain? Is there anything in your life that you boast over when it is God who gave you that very thing?
We should profoundly realize that what we do is not by our own doing, but by what God does through us. What we accomplish is not a result of anything we can do on our own, but what we can do with God's help and guiding. God deserves all credit, honor, and worship not us.
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