Are you one of those people who always have to be in control of something? Maybe it’s something big? Maybe it’s just some little thing, but it’s your little thing. What’s it like to give up that control? It’s hard, isn’t it? Almost like free falling, you’re letting go of something that made you feel stable and secure. Take some time and journal some of the things that you have control issues with. Could be something big, or maybe something as small as setting the thermostat.
Read Proverbs 27:1 and journal your thoughts
Some may be wondering what this has to do about control, but ask yourself; how can you brag about tomorrow if you’re not in control of tomorrow? As we talk about the future there comes a point where we have to admit that we are not in control. Seriously, we’re not. As much as we want to be, as much as we feel like we are in control of our own destiny, the fact is we’re not. Let’s have psychiatrist moment and ask ourselves; how does that make you feel?
We don’t like to not be in control, we like to have a plan so that we can know what tomorrow is going to bring. But trusting God is about not having control and trusting the One who is in control. Sometimes it’s so easy for us to be so scheduled, so committed to things that it’s easy for us to ignore God’s call for us to do something else. It’s easy to tell God that we don’t have time to help because I’ve got this or that to do. But sometimes God puts people in our paths so that our tomorrow looks nothing like we planned. It looks better.
Today pray that God would help us to give up control of our schedules and to be open to what He is calling us to do.
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