I was raised in a God fearing household, believe in salvation and formed our marriage on that bond and raise my kids to have prayers, morals, Bible stories etc… but my reliance on God is sad. I’m of the “fix it yourself no one’s here to help” mentality. I’m at a crossroad professionally where I continue down a good path or pick something similar but unfamiliar that may potentially be better later. How do you approach God with a plead for guidance (I know it’s a simple answer) but feel like a hypocrite since you’re not really great at maintaining your own personal relationship with Him.
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Jesus is our ONLY internediary to God.
Our paraclete. Our advocate by His perfect, righteous life and His blood. Not any of the plethora of saints. Not Mary. He affirmed her humanity when He called her "woman". She was of the flesh and a sinner like everyone and therefore, needed salvation through her son. God used sinful man in every instance in the Bible, as they were all sinners, too. Moses sinned. David sinned. Noah sinned. The disciples sinned. Jonah sinned, etc, etc, etc. Only Jesus did not.
HE said plainly in John 14:6.
John 14:6 KJV [6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And John 10:29-30:
John 10:29-30 KJV [29] My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. [30] I and my Father are one.
Praying to Jesus is praying to God. Yet, we respect their place in the Godhead.
No where in the entire scripture is it ever said to pray through anyone but Jesus. In the Old Testament, the priests stood and sacrificed in our stead...over and over. But, Jesus is the ultimate High Priest, In the priestly order of Melchizadek, who sacrificed once for all by the shedding of His blood voluntarily and ascended to the right hand of God, the Father, to judge the quick and the dead.
God sees Christ's righteousness when He looks at us if we've been born again/ washed in His blood, changing our scarlet sin-soaked garments into those washed white as snow by His blood and righteousness. He says, "I paid this sinner's fine. His debt is cleared from the ledger." Sins forgotten, by God, as far as the east is from the west.
Amen.
Edit: I/we've faced the same challanges, and only God through jesus do we pray and make supplications in faith. No works. When born again, one enters into God's rest. No works required, just faith.
Hebrews 4:10 KJV [10] For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.
Hebrews 4:10–13 explains the nature of this faith. The kind of faith that enables us to enter into God’s rest is a faith that first demands that we rest from relying on our own works.
Love to you.