The impossible

I was thinking about how there have been many times in life where I have been driven in my quest for God and what he would have me do. He has been working on my heart and I don't have that same drive anymore. It almost makes me worry a bit- like maybe I am not doing all that I should be doing for the Lord. I was wondering this last night in my bed and I turned in my Bible to the passage about how Isaac was the son of promise, while Ishmael on the other hand, was a son of the flesh.

Galatians 4:2121 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.

What God was telling me was that Sarah didn't have to worry one bit, or do anything, just believe in the promises that God gave her. God made the promise (she would have a child) but he didn't say exactly when until a year before the child was born. He also didn't tell her how a woman of her age would have a child! The amazing thing is that God always does the impossible! And can you believe it- without our help! Unfortunately she fell into the pit that we all do when temptation comes and we want to take matters in our own hands. We end up doing things our own way instead of waiting on God. We manipulate circumstances, and use our puny little minds to figure things out. We use our own self efforts (our flesh) and say that God is doing it- when it us and our flesh. The reality is- is that we cant do anything. So, I can hang tight to the promises that he has for me and I don't have to strive, connive, or use my own self effort- only believe and trust in Him to guide, direct, and instruct me. He works out all the rest.