Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Relinquish Control

I've recently been trying to take back something I had turned over to God. I get going along, doing just great with letting God do His thing, then a bump in the road pops up and I'm back to my scheming again.  I try to figure out how I can fix the problem, even though for the last 4 months I've let God work on it.  That frustrates me about myself, that I keep picking up my problems again. I'm getting better at handing them back over to God quicker, but I just want to be able to leave them to Him for good.  I'm strategic. I'm a thinker. I'm a "pick yourself up by your bootstraps and get it done" kind of a person. It's hard for me to relinquish control, especially over things I think I'm supposed to be responsible for. God has done a lot of work in my heart to help me with the control. I've learned that I just changed the word to responsible instead of control and that was how I'd made it "okay" for me to be in charge. God has shown me that when He calls me to a thing, He is in complete control of it and He takes full responsibility for the outcome. He is growing me deeper with these situations in which I want to take responsibility, by making it impossible for me to be strategic.  It's tough learning, but He has made my heart much softer and I can feel Him molding me.

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