You know what I’ve realized lately? How much we really don’t understand as humans. I mean seriously… we truly don’t understand about anything. And everything we do understand even somewhat is only from our very limited perspective on things… so we don’t even truly understand a lot of those things either.
It cracks me up and breaks my heart at the same time when I see or meet people who truly think they are in control of their own lives. Reallllly? That is such an American mindset. Or a mindset of anyone who is remotely prosperous. Like I was reminded the other night when our power went out because of a storm for an hour and a half… we are soooooo not in control.
I mean at any second the stock market could fall through for some crazy reason, some crazy guy could find a loophole in our government and take over, many people we love could die in some random natural disaster, we ourselves could die, we could lose all our money… I mean there could be a million things that could happen. But since these things usually don’t happen in the United States… most people at least partially believe they are in control. I mean I even sometimes start to subconsciously believe it. Yikes… I hate when that happens.
I mean whats so good about being in control anyways? Then everything is up to you and only you. That sucks in my opinion. Because let’s see…. we’re sinful, so we do many, many, MANY things wrong and selfishly so if we were in control we would hurt many, many more people than we already do, including ourselves (since God often so graciously stops us from doing things to actually help us because we are about to royally screw things up). We’re also incredibly limited as human beings… we only have so many strengths, many weaknesses, a extremely limited perception of the world, ourselves, and others, our bodies are incredibly fragile, and so many other things.
We are not in control.
And thats a good thing!
I hate how “churchy” and “cliche” this is about to sound but its complete, glorious truth…
God is in control, and He’s so PERFECT for BEING in control. I mean well… He’s perfect. haha :) He loves perfectly, He sees perfectly, He knows perfectly, He knows the past, present, and future perfectly, He is unselfish, He never ever changes (when we humans are so fickle and unchanging its ridiculous)… need I go on? :)
Yeah, it sucks sometimes that He is in control when we are being selfish and like a child exclaiming, “But I want it now!” or “But why NOT!?”. But I’ve often done that and its funny because every time I’ve done that, obviously God always does His will anyways… and it always turns out way better than what I originally wanted or ever could have dreamed! It doesn’t always look good at first. Health problems, breakups, death, losing your job… whatever it may be. But it always, always,always turns out for our good and the good of the Kingdom at the same time.
That is just cool to me. At the same time… at the same time it turns out for OUR good AND the good of the Kingdom.
Only God could orchestrate that. :)
Enough of my ramblings… just continually find that both funny and heartbreaking that we humans often both want to be and think we are in control. We’re crrrrazy. :)
