Wednesday nights are my favorite night of the week, because we have an awesome service at our church that night. I usually feel like I'm in an advanced college course, while simultaneously at a comedy club, while also being 5 years old again sitting on my father's lap as he reads me my favorite story. There's nothing like it.
Anyway, last night the main topic our pastor taught on was control, and the concept of realizing that hardly anything is in our control so it's pretty silly to waste so much emotion and energy on trying to control everything. As a quintessential control freak, I listened to the message with a mixture self-consciousness, skepticism, and relief. I know wisdom when I hear it, so why is it so difficult to internalize it instantaneously (I also have issues with patience as you've probably surmised)?
It's so obvious: Yahweh is my Father -- He's good all the time, He's smarter than me all the time, and He speaks all the time. My steps are ordered by Him. He is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, whereas, let's just say I am not quite there yet. I trust Him... do I not? So why would I ever waste one millisecond of my precious time or energy worrying about anything??? And futhermore, why would I ever even bother to predict or expect things to turn out a certain way, let alone get all hot and bothered when they don't go that way? If it weren't so unfortunate (in my mind) I'm sure it would be hysterical. In fact I can see YHWH laughing His heartiest laugh right now, much the way I laugh at my kids when they do something cute out of frustration or lack of understanding. I know they will get it eventually. He knows I will get it eventually. By faith -- and only by faith -- I know it, too.
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lol yeah - that was a wonderful message. I have to hear it a FEW more times before it'll really sink in, though :)
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