Trust More not Try Harder

Trust more not try harder. The modern world promises that if you want to be happy, sort out your problems, get the life you desire you basically you got to “try harder”. We are given instructions, techniques, methods, tools, philosophies and knowledge on how to manage and guide our lives to our desired ends. Work at it harder, do things faster, fit more in, aim higher. Life today offers you a self help success formula that basically involves the following; Dream and desire the big dream, set the game plan, focus on your strengths, negate your weaknesses, climb the greasy pole, organise your time, dress to impress, manipulate your appearance, seize opportunities, use other people, design your perfect partner, be in control of your life persist until you achieve your goals and live happily ever after. But there is one problem. We don’t live happily ever after. We all have a pain inside, a space, a hole that never seems to satisfy. This pain points to something wrong. What’s wrong is that we are living a myth. But it’s worse then a myth. Myths are based on some truth. Our lives today are based on no truth at all. We are living an illusion, a lie. The ultimate truth is reality. Reality is God. Trying harder is an illusion. The perceived formula for happiness and successful living in the western world boils down to “try harder”. But faith is about trusting more. Trusting God, the creator of all things. Trying harder means we rely on ourselves, us, who are finite beings with a beginning and end on earth. Trusting God means we totally surrender to God and his will, God who is infinite and has no beginning or end.