control

a few straightforward, hijacked thoughts.

life is not predictable. we do not have control. we try to put people in boxes. we try to fit people into our plans, the way we think things should look. we want guarantees.

God only gives us enough for today.

there is much we can't control. there are a few things we can control.

moses is asked by God to do a large and important task - to lead God's people out of egypt. moses responds by basically saying "you've got the wrong guy. Please send someone else." moses accepts the calling and spends the next 40 years leading God's people out of egypt. he suffers greatly. his dream is to lead them to the promised land.

initially, we see Moses respond with complete indifference towards the people he's asked to lead. But by the end he is saying "i would give my life for these people."

moses works for 40 years, gives his life to leading these people, and God takes him to the top of a mountain, where for the first time, he sees the promised land. moses can literally see his dream. And it's here that God tells Moses, "This is as close as you're going to get. You're going to die now."

you can't control what breaks, but you can control the kind of person you're becoming. hard hearts that transform into hearts that beat for the things that God's heart beats for.

we control our response.

it is easy to say, "life could have been so much easier... life could have been so much better." we look back and see a straighter path, but the truth is that we are shaped in the places where our path twists and turns. we are shaped in the long journey. there are no guarantees from God, except that God will go with us.

who have you been trying to control? it is time to surrender that person.

do you live with untold anxiety? are you waiting for the 6-month plan?

all we get is today. God is with us on this journey. always.

let go.

"Jesus says 'Follow me' and He doesn't say much more.

may you be okay with the journey. may you identify, with the spirit of God leading you, what you can control and what you can't. may you surrender what you cannot control to the God of the universe.

may you ask yourself:
'what is it that I can control?'
'who is the person that God is inviting me to become?"