Realizations of the morning

Yesterday, in a lame attempt to help, I said, "Remember it's not you, but Jesus." The response was, "Yeah, if I could just get out of the way."
Later that day, I switched up the usual prayer of "let him see himself like you see him." To, "let him see Jesus in himself". Not much difference, but the perspective is a tad different.
This morning, as thoughts raced through my brain, I realized how wrong I had been to say what I did.  Not only is it unhelpful, I know that, but, it's untrue. And it messes with your identity. SO MUCH of the Christian religion has been warped to bring you down. But it's SO NOT TRUE.  I'll say more about that in a minute, but, the realization that I had was: "Realize that it's a partnership with the Spirit/Jesus/God (whatever version floats your boat). You don't need to push yourself out of the way, you simply need to do it together. But, the idea of getting out of the way, lowers actually, your self confidence.  It's like a child, say he/she is not cutting a pancake quite right, and it's turning into a mess. So, the child wants to give up, and the parent has the option of doing it for the child, which enforces in the childs mind that he/she can't do it.  OR the parent can simply place their hands on top of the childs and guide the hands so they don't mess up. Enforcing the idea that YOU CAN DO IT. And, that the parent cares enough to help.
The trick to all this, and is what Jesus said, that we must be like little children. Not teenagers that can do everything themselves, not adults that don't need anyone else. But, little children, with the humility of the child. That moment of giving up, not saying, I can't do it- so I'm done, but saying, guide my hands, because You can do it, and show me how.


But, the arguers say, you're dismissing the need for a savior. Yes, and no. I'm dismissing that you are unworthy. I'm dismissing that you are a sinner and that defines you. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T.  Jesus, to the woman at the well, to nicademus, to everyone he came in contact with, it was never, "you are a sinner, you need to follow me." It was simply, "you are loved, go, and sin no more".  He says "no man comes to the Father but by me," and we have taken that to a whole new level, unless you proclaim Jesus, you can't get to the Father. What if you look at that a little differently. What if you realize that HE is love, and without love you can't see the Father. And you are forever trapped in a life of pain and anguish.
Why did Jesus have to die? To take on the sins of the world? Or to show the ultimate act of love?  To defeat fear, to prove that God never forsakes us even in the darkest of the dark. That love wins.