In the past 24 hours I’ve been reminded, how little I control in my life. Although I sometimes think I have control, I realized what a mirage that is for me. I’ve faced the reality I have no control over the weather, I have no control over where I’m going to go when I go through an airport, and I certainly realize I can’t control a car service to pickup us up on our schedule.
As we flew across the Atlantic yesterday and I had time to think about how massive this planet is, and yet it is not even a pin drop in comparison to the magnitude of God’s awesome power and control. As much as I sometimes enjoy the charade I play with my mind, it’s really not my call.
James 4:13-14 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
This is fresh for me today as I consider I’m very small. Yet God is very big and for those of us that have an intimate relationship with Him, through Jesus Christ, we matter to Him. He desires that we enjoy the good gifts He provides and sometimes those gifts come through the realization, we are just little bitty creatures that have no control.
He has provided us an opportunity to visit the land He chose to walk as the God/Man. Of the entire place on this earth, this is the place where our Lord chose to be born, to live, to minister, to suffer, to die and to rise again. What an awesome reality. How humbling that is.
So today, when you think you have control or you feel out of control; consider that if you are in Christ, no matter what the outcome it’s all in God’s plan.
Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.
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Shalom
Kevin
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