Control

There are a lot of people in my life who want to control the environment. They want to control how they are perceived, what is said, how things are run, what happens and everything in their lives. I'm not being over dramatic. Have you ever met anyone like that? It's frustrating for me...because they won't let you help them. It's frustrating for me, because I can be like that too.


I would love to say that I've given complete control to Christ. My life is in his hands and I don't ever try to take it back from Him. But I'd be lying.


I can't tell you how long I've felt like I've had no control over my life; I don't know what I want to do or where I want to go. Every time I need to know, I lay at God's feet and ask that he will give me patience. Then he tells me...


"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11


Friends, I know what it's like. I know that it's hard to live in this in between stage. I see so many of my friends getting married, and graduating and starting careers. I see them do these things and envy that they know what life will look like. It's a challenge.


It's raining today. Rain means that everything is gonna be okay. That's how God tells me physically, in this world, that it's gonna be okay. I might be stubborn and hard to get through to at times...but He knows me best. :)


I want to have control of my life and know what is going to happen. But as I have seen in my life thus far, it never turns out the way I think it will. God's plan is ALWAYS better. When I have "control" of my life, it sucks in comparison to Christ.


Everything is gonna be okay. God gave me rain. Today, I will rest in Him. I will trust His goodness. Today, I am his and he is mine. We'll tackle tomorrow, tomorrow. But for now, he's got my back.


Have you given him control? Are you content with where you are? Cause no matter where that is for you, He's got your back.