What is the difference in “Giving your life to God” and Giving CONTROL your life to God”? I use to think there was none. Boy was I wrong.
A young child was baptized in a small little Baptist Church in Irondale Alabama at age 8. Oh, she prayed and prayed. Told people of the love of God, and eventually all the bliss faded away. Then that same girl found herself in predicament after predicament over and over throughout her life, needless to say, she prayed and prayed and overcame time after time. Again and again, she would fall, pray, and be helped back up. Then after long periods in her life where God was there when needed, but pushed away when “not” needed, she realized that she never gave CONTROL over. She still ran things and he was her back up plan. Wow, some nerve, huh?
Addictions? I KNOW ADDICTIONS. Financial burdens? Yep that one too. Loss, Pain, Suffering, Betrayl, Abandonment? Boy I definitely know those!
But then, one day, I decided to let God run things and let me BE the plan
How did all this come about? Wow, who knows? It isn’t just like I thought it one day and said, you know, maybe things are so crazy around here because I insist on driving. The old adage has floated around my head a lot “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results”. YA THINK?
But then, things just started happening. Oddities I can’t put words to. Financial support and blessings I can’t account for. Positions and doors opening I didn’t know existed. My husband transformed into a man of God! That in its self should have told me something. But I am hard headed… Right? I continued to pull things back from him that I “gave” him to handle. Hello? Anyone else see what’s wrong with this picture? I really think I can do a better job than HE? No, not at all, I think I can do it quicker, more efficiently and check it off the list. AH HA then, who holds the list? If I hold the list, and I am the “time keeper”, and I am the one who checks things off, how then can I expect God’s perfect timing to work in my life? Simple, I can’t!
I am not a “religious” person, but I am a child of God. I don’t know much about Theology, but I know that things work better when I let God Be in Control of what HE created! I also know that I personally enjoy all of the positives that have developed in my life because of this mentality. So call it what you will, I just want you to know two things: 1. God’s timing is PERFECT! And 2. HE will never take you to something and abandon you. He will always bring you through it if you trust in HIS plan.
