Stop Trying and Start Being

I get several e-mails each day from a couple of lists I belong too. The following couple of paragraphs were part of a message from Kathie Walters that was sent through in an Elijah List e-mail. The whole message was really solid, but I focused rather hard on two paragraphs. They are as follows:

"If you are doing something tonight in the way of serving God and it's not delightful, forget it --it's just works. And, sorry to say, God is not interested in your works, He's interested in His works. He is not going to anoint your works, He anoints His works. The glory of God will never come on what you do --the glory comes on what He does. It's not trying, it's yielding to the anointing.
Isn't it easier to yield rather than to try and strive and work at it? Trying can be very trying. God is not running around your city trying to recruit workers for the Kingdom, He is just wanting His sons and daughters to rise up and be who He called them to be. You're not a sinner saved by grace -- you were a sinner saved by grace, but now you are a son or a daughter of Almighty God. You are royalty of the Royalty, an heir of righteousness and an heir of the Kingdom. You don't have to earn it, you can't qualify for it -- Jesus gave you this inheritance, freely. He paid for it 100% when He died and rose again."

I was powerfully reminded by these two paragraphs who I am to God. I am His daughter. He freely gives, whether I deserve it or not. I don't have to try to be anything, I just have to yield to God's anointing on my life and be who I already am. It's not about what I do, it is about what He did and is doing.

For what it's worth, that is what I wanted to share today.