I Am In Control
“Our fear is that a living God in not a God we can live with. God stuck between the pages of our Bible is a controllable God. We always have the option of snapping the book shut. It’s the living, breathing Jesus who is dangerous.”
-Marianne Sawicki
As I am fully in the throes of raising my first teenage son along with my wife, I am slowly beginning to realize that control is something that I cannot exert in the same manner as when he was 4 or 5.
Perhaps that is the point. Control is something I should have never desired to exert in his life, but rather simply set boundaries and try to influence him positively. I know I did not always measure up to that desire, and did – and at times still do – try to control him.
Am I guilty of doing the same thing to God? If I can just keep Him in the form I like or can control, perhaps I have settled thinking it was enough.
Surrender is the willingness to be open to possibilities we cannot imagine. Control suggests that if we can’t imagine it, it cannot be, and we are set about to ensure it.
Lord, realign my thinking.
