Tied Hands

God has given us all the tools we need to work through, and out of, our daily problems; physically, psychologically, and spiritually. But He allows, and sometimes creates, complexities that only He alone can solve. This is done to remind us, as Daniel say's, "There is a God in heaven"; and that we can't get through life without Divine help.

At such hopeless times we need to commit the impossible person or predicament into God's hands. And having done so, to keep our hands out of it. He does not need our assistance in such situations. When we do so, we become, as Oswald Chambers writes, "Miniature Providences." 

Remember Uzza attempting to give God a hand? "And when they came unto the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark." 

Faith unties the hands of God, so to speak, allowing Him to work. And at the same time, ties ours with the same rope; so that we will cease from our own works!