Who’s in Control?
Morning Friends,
Do not assume you know it all. Listen to a voice in the wilderness of your life calling you to prepare to be forgiven so God can use your fruits for the purpose He intends for you in your daily living. Listen for God to direct your ways in a life that honors Him. That is the way to live well and to live into His kingdom that never ends. Like a child race to Him. Use your heart. Use your broken heart. Don’t try too hard to figure it all out in your head. There is a mystery that you cannot figure out with your mind. Just be loyal and love His ways. Ask Him for help in this work and He will give it. He will make your path straight. What counts is your life. What must change is your life…. the potholes filled, the detours straightened out, the ruts paved over, every bump smoothed. So make your life count…. Let go and let God change you. During this Easter Season prepare for God’s resurrected appearance to redeem your life. Make a place for Him in your life so you can celebrate in the parade of God’s faithful on His road to salvation. Trust in Him. Acknowledge Him. Let Him be your answer to the question. Who’s in Control?
Scripture: Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8 (NRSV)
My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you. Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them round your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and of people. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:1-6 (NRSV)
Message: God has a way of blessing those who trust in Him with their health, wealth and happiness. But sometimes tragedies happen. Life gets out of control. We get angry and well the only way out is to turn it over the Jesus and His patience. Sometimes life is beyond us and uncertain. We have a choice to be controlled by it or to realize that God is in control even in a crisis. We talk about self-control but really it is only submission to God’s Spirit…trusting and obeying. You see control is never beyond God if we abide in His love. Learn that there is a treasure in trusting in His love. Be surprised by the joy of His severe mercy. We need to experience, not control but surrender to, the possibility of God providing for our needs. So trust in the treasure of His provision, His knowledge, His security… Trust in His grace and peace, knowing that in all things that matter, God is in control. But do not forget to ask for help.
Pray we take comfort in Christ’s control. Pray we be in awe of Jesus but get to know him in and through the lives of others. Pray we have the courage to meet Jesus, the extraordinary in the ordinary. Pray we realize that we can selfishly reject Jesus or humbly receive him in our daily walk. Pray we realize that what we do in the lives of others is reflected in the life of Jesus in heaven. Pray we realize that what we choose to do today makes a difference.
Pray that Christ will take control of our lives, that His concern, compassion and character would command the stone separating us to roll away, that in our death he would call us into communion…that in His resurrection we would find strength for today and hope for a tomorrow. Pray we realize we have been forgiven.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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