DEPENDENCE
ON GOD; CONFIDENCE

It is itself a cliche that the Christian faith is full of apparent self-contradictions commonly called paradoxes. One such paradox is the necessity to repudiate self and depend wholly upon God while at the same time having complete confidence in our own ability to receive and know and understand with the faculties God Himself has given us. That brand of humility which causes a man to distrust his own mentality to the point of moral diffidence and chronic irresolution is but a weak parody on the real thing. It is a serious reflection upon the wisdom and goodness of God to question His handiwork. “Does the clay say to the potter, what are you making?”

Isaiah 45:9; 2 Corinthians 3:5–6; 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 4:5–7

God Tells the Man Who Cares, 112, 113.