Jesus is NOT my crutch – I’m FAR MORE DEPENDENT on Him than that! I can’t even guarantee my next breath without God’s grace. -Rick Warren
As I grew up, I was taught a good Dutch work ethic and I am proud to say that it was imparted on me. From a very young age, I was taught to work whether it was around the house or at my Grandpa’s farm. In fact after my 6th grade year I worked at his farm with my cousin, it was fun and it was hard work. After my 9th grade year I got a job at a lettuce farm in the area and had to be at work at 6am and we usually ended at 5pm. Through this all I was taught to work hard, no matter how hard the job was. It was ingrained by my family, bosses and the community around me.
So let’s bring this into me following Jesus, I tend in my actions to treat Jesus as my crutch, it is disgusting isn’t it? Yeah. I say that I believe that Jesus is my everything and that He alone is the reason that I can even breathe and let’s be honest I do not live that way at all. I live as though I have done mostly everything and that Jesus just needs to help me along a little bit, however that is not true. In order to live the way of completely relying on Jesus, I need to fall on my face before God and completely submit to Him, I need to live as though I believe the Gospel and live a Gospel life. How radical would it be if a bunch of people truly lived as though this aspect of the Gospel is true?
