Chill Out!

It is always easy to talk about letting God be in control.  Actually, He is, we just live like we have the steering wheel.  We might try to wrest control away from Him, but it always remains firmly in His hands.  After all, He is the all powerful God and we are mere mortals with limited strength and sometimes even less sense.  If we had good sense there would never be any struggle about who is in charge.  Over and over the Word of God speaks to us about this issue and we nod our heads in agreement and then push the pedal to the metal to speed things up.     

Perhaps, the most frustrating thing to us about God being in control is that He never gets in a hurry.  He acts as if eternity is long enough to get what He wants done.  We are consumers of instant gratification and He is the One who is always calling us to wait, to pay attention to where we are and what is going on around us, and to quit worrying about what might be.  We hear what He has to say and we say it makes sense, but we have also come to the conclusion that it is a hard word to put into practice.   The bottom line in all this control business is trust.  

Either God is trustworthy or He is not.  He has said He has a plan for each one of us.  He says He cares for the sparrow and He will surely care for us.  Either He is trustworthy and keeps His Word, or He is the God of broken promises.  Of course, we know He is not the God of broken promises, but the God of made and kept promises.  The One who is in charge of our life even in those moments when we are fighting Him for control is trustworthy and faithful.  What He has said He will do, He will do.  We just need to give Him room to do it.  Chill out!