MacDonald: complete dependence upon God

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Meditation:
    Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.”
    —John 5:19,20 (NIV)

Quotation:
    You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the one dreadful thing. That His Father should forget him!—no power in Himself could make up for that. He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself... His life was of no value to Him but as His Father cared for it. God would mind all that was necessary for Him, and He would mind the work His Father had given Him to do. And, my friends, this is just the one secret of a blessed life, the one thing every man comes into this world to learn.
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905), Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood [1867], London: Strahan & Co., 1873, p. 207-208 (see the book)

Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach me Your will that I may carry it out every day of my life.

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