Psalms 46:10 KJV “Be
still, and know that I am God: I will be
exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth”.
Every
day, you have to decide who’s going to be in control of your life — you or God.
That
choice is a battle. There are things in your life that you want to control. You
want to make your own rules. But stress relief always starts with letting God
be God. It always starts with saying, “God, I’m giving up control, because you
can control the things that are out of control in my life.”
Psalm 46:10 says, “Let go of your concerns!
Then you will know that I am God. I rule the nations. I rule the earth” (GW).
I don’t
know what you’re going to face this week. You don’t, either. But I can already
tell you what God wants you to do: Let go, and know. Let go of control, and
know that God is in control. Let go, and know! This is the first step to calmness
in your life.
Whenever
we face out-of-control situations, we tend to go to one of two extremes. For
some of us, the more out-of-control our life gets, the harder we try to control
it. Some of us do the exact opposite: We just give up! We have a pity party and
invite ourselves to it.
Both of
those reactions to stress are foolish. They The
number one reason we under stress is because we in conflict with God. We are
trying to control things that only God can control. We can’t control our
husbands or our kids or your wives or our job or our future or our past or any
of that stuff. The more we do it, the more we are trying to play God, and that
puts us in opposition to God. Not only are we going to lose that conflict, we
also going to be tired.
From today learn to let go and let God; and
the testimonies would be amazing.
Millions
of people pray the Serenity Prayer, which is based on the Lord’s Prayer, but
most have never read the last eight lines to the prayer: “Living one day at a
time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
taking as Jesus did this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to your will so
that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with you
forever in the next. Amen.”
That’s
where the power is! There is power when you surrender to God the very things
you’ve been trying to take control of from him.
What is
the result — physical, emotional, and spiritual — when you surrender to God the
things you want to control?
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