Counter-Intuitive Counselling

Recently I found a note that I wrote to someone after a counselling session. It might seem counter-intuitive, but it surely is true. I remember reading something like this in Rev. Andrew Murray -- one of the few ministers who is still in print 100+ years later.

"With regard to any and all of the challenges of life, I feel that the key is not to try harder, to seek to master it, to resort to the works of our own hands -- but rather the starting point is to confess our own humility, vulnerability, inability. Generally speaking, the way forward always begins with the latter, and coming into God's presence like that."