As I posted before, my church is doing a study from the book Relentless written by John Bevere. I have been learning so much from this study and I truly feel like my mind in being renewed to understand what the Grace of God truly is. By the time this study is over I believe that I will have learned how to live my life with a RELENTLESS spirit.
Today, I was shown what a relentless attitude is truly like. I have been having problems with the car that I bough recently. The day I bought it, it had to be towed back to the dealer. I picked the car up yesterday thinking that it was "fixed." I drove it to my sisters house and when I went attempted to leave at 12:00 a.m. it wouldn't start! What!?!?! I couldn't believe what was happening. That was the second time now that I had gotten the car and it broke down the same day. My sister let me stay the night and the next morning I woke up all grumbly and down. She tried her best to make me smile or laugh, or even just talk, but I refused to be the good company she wanted.
Now my sister, she is one of the most determined people I know. She has always gone so far out of her way to help me with projects or problems. She sat down with grumpy ol me and began to rattle off different things that we could do. She offered to give me rides places, offered to let me borrow her car, she started listing off people that we could possibly call to come look at the car, she listed ways to sell it if I didn't want to keep it anymore. That girl went nuts with ideas! Finally she came with the simple idea of, lets try to jump start it. I told her no. My dad was going to be coming by soon to look at the car so I just wanted to wait until he go there to do anything. She insisted and without asking me got her boyfriends jumper cables and headed outside. Her boyfriend was willing to help us out and we eventually got the car started. Why? Because my sister had a relentless attitude that we were going to get the problem solved.
What's the lesson here and how does it concern me and you? In this situation, my attitude was to give up and wait for someone else to fix the problem (that someone else being my dad). However, my sisters attitude was "there's a problem, and I am going to do everything in my power to fix it." As I am learning in the book Relentless, grace is God's empowerment. My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak (2 Corinthians 12:9 TEV). We have the empowerment of God in us. If we all were to look at situations the way my sister did today and have the attitude of I will do everything in my power (God's empowerment by grace) to fix this then what can't we do?
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