That's very true. Anything we think we can handle on our own will enslave us, it's so hard to admit that God is in control and not us. God must laugh at me sometimes when my actions tell Him: “Lord you don't understand I need this stuff, the way is hard and difficult I need to be prepared and in control.” He always tells me: “No child you need me.”
I think like everything else in our lives we have to learn this by experience. Others can tell us, warn us, preach to us, nag us, but we so often act like the teenagers we once were and imagine it doesn't apply to us - we're different, it'll be different with us. There have been so many times in my life where the Lord has put me in a place where ALL I
could do was trust Him. That's how He teaches us to trust Him. Just like the Israelites in the desert - no food, no water, no direction - He puts us in the place where we can do nothing BUT trust Him or die. But when we finally learn that lesson - and I don't claim that I have reached the point where I am 100% perfect - there is a joy and freedom that settles around us and we begin to live as HE wants us to live.
Thanks for these Steve Brown series. He is a great Bible teacher and his love for the Lord comes out in everything he says. You just know he has lived what he preaches.