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Giving Up Control

I usually don't post twice in a one day time period, however I've had a lot on my mind in which I didn't think would go well with my previous post. Something that I have struggled with a lot lately and I feel like we all struggle with from time to time is this feeling of loss of control. We all want to be in control of our lives and often we want to be in control of the lives of those we care about as well. If your like me then you hate not being in control in your own life and in those around you especially when they are experiencing a rough time and you feel as if you can do absolutely nothing to help them or change the circumstances. Our bible study last night hit me pretty hard. I've been slacking on my devotions lately not wanting to be confronted by God about areas in my life that I know need change. I've been tying to handle everything on my own lately and I'm a testimony that this does not work. This past month I've had two people whom I really care about attempt suicide and I could do nothing. Instead of crying out to God during these times I shut him out asking myself where he is in the midst of this and grasping for myself anything I can do to help and feeling helpless because I couldn't do or control anything. This being said I could've done the only thing that could have helped which is pray for them. We think that if were in control everything will be okay but were never in control only God is and the best thing we can do for ourselves and those around us is give away the control. Give it all up completely to God. Giving up control is hard but the fact is we don't have any control anyways so isn't it better to willingly surrender everything to the one who controls it all? Things will still go wrong but knowing its in our creators hands should give us comfort and peace knowing that God will get us where we need to be. There's a quote that I love because its so true, "God will lead us not where we want to be but where we need to be." This can be very hard to accept sometimes when things aren't going the way we think they should. We need to remember that God is for us and not against us so whatever we face in life was needed in order to get to where God wants us to be in our future. I know its hard believe me but we cant lose faith during these times because at the end of the day amidst all the worry and stress, our faith is the only thing we have to lean on, and God wants us to lean on him. Try from now on going to God first and see what changes happen in your life.

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