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Have you ever thought to yourself, God I hear what you are saying, but you just don’t understand the depths of the situation at hand?  Maybe you have heard God speak to your heart about a relationship, a family member, about tithing, or a job opportunity, or maybe even a vice you constantly struggle with, or perhaps it’s about getting involve in the church, or even giving your time to some other charitable cause.  But every time you hear God speak these words you respond by telling God he doesn’t understand what that would that really mean for you to do this or that.  It just can’t happen.But until we come to the end of ourselves, we will often place our trust in our own understanding, our own strength, our own abilities instead of trusting in God and walking where Holy Spirit has asked us to walk. How do you respond to the things God ask of you that are not what you were wanting to hear or what you are wanting to do?  And what would it take for you to say yes to Jesus instead of making a thousand excuses of why it just can’t happen that way? Peter agrees to do what Jesus asked him to do, although his heart is definitely not in it.  I like to imagine Peter rowing his boat, with just a hint of aggravation that Jesus would ask him to do such a ridiculous thing.  But because Jesus has healed his own mother-in-law and many other people, Peter knows that Jesus is capable of doing things in way like no one else he has ever seen.  So he rows and rows, puts out the nets all the while thinking, this is stupid and I has ruined my chance of getting a nap in today.  Peter comes to the end of himself and does what Jesus ask of him to do even though he cannot imagine any good that will come from it.And then he experiences the beginning of what God can do.  Jesus works wonders.  The nets are so full that when they get the fish in the boat the boat starts to sink.  As Paul writes in the Epistle: “For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain.” How has God grace been poured out towards you?  What would it look like for his grace to not be poured out in vain over you? Understanding the depths of God’s love for you and the grace that He has poured out to you through Jesus on cross is the who and the why for surrendering is only answer that makes sense. What do you hear God, the Holy Spirit saying to you this morning or in the moments where you get quiet enough to hear?   When it comes to your time, to your resources, to your abilities; What do you hear God, the Holy Spirit speaking into your soul? When it comes to your relationships, when it comes to your actions, when it comes to the thoughts and attitudes of your heart; What do you hear the God, the Holy Spirit directing? How will you respond?   When you come to the end of yourself you will see the beginning of God.Support the show (http://www.easytithe.com/stbdeland)