The devotional below is one example:
Oswald Chambers devotional for July 28 (classic version)
One of the passages I keep revisiting is this:
"God is not working towards a particular finish; His end is the process – that I see Him walking on the waves, no shore in sight, no success, no goal, just the absolute certainty that it is all right because I see Him walking on the sea."
I wrestled with this in my time with God this morning. How do I get there? How do I get to where I'm certain that all is right simply because I know He is God?
Then a thought occurred to me -- I can't remember why -- that needy people are self-centered. I do not mean that in the way you're probably interpreting. That would be cruel. And weird, coming from someone who has quite a bit of first-hand knowledge on the subject. No, what I mean is that much of a hurting person's emotional and mental energy is expended on trying to get the hurt to go away. This can happen to anyone in crisis, which is one reason we rarely know what to say to a grieving person. Similarly, we rarely know what to do with an emotionally needy person's needs, which often tends to make the person try harder and harder to be heard. Eventually, a needy person's cry to be heard can become so strident that it chases people away in droves, and a vicious cycle ensues.
What does this have to do with anything? Well, the next thought that hit me was this:
Jesus wasn't needy.
I don't mean He was self-sufficient; I don't mean He was smug ("I'm not going to be like one of those people"); I don't mean He never suffered. I mean, He was the epitome of what Oswald Chambers describes in the above passage. He lived in the absolute certainty that all was right, because He understood that God was God and that the outcome of every circumstance He was placed into as He walked in obedience was God's responsibility, and God's alone. As a result, He lived each moment abundantly -- fully content in God's sovereignty.
So how do I get there? It's not an intellectual process. I can't reason it out, much as I'm inclined to try. Nor is it an emotional process. No, it's a process I have to step into, just as Peter chose to step out of the boat when He saw Jesus coming toward Him on the water. It's a process of the will, deciding that in this moment, God is enough. Then going about my business, obeying what He's called me to and trusting Him with the rest.