Lose Control

Control is safe.

It's what we know. We can manipulate and create an outcome we know will benefit us and thats why control has so much control over us. When we are able to foresee the outcome, we can prepare for what's to come. We create a bumper of control so that we don't have to experience anything unexpected that could throw us off.

We want to know the outcome and we especially want to know that it will contribute to our welfare. Control is controlling. It consumes how we act and why we do or don't do life.

What if when you gave up control, you actually gained security? Not a specific yes or no, but a knowing that through the uncontrolled, he is the one in control so we don't have to be.

His control allows us to climb down our high horse and instead of fear the ground, we accept it. Even embrace it. We are able to do so because we know he is there to help us down.

His relationship is never take take take.

He does not leave us empty. We do.

We create an emptiness inside us that allows parasites to make their claim on our lives. They make themselves comfortable but not always known. The feed on our fear and shame. To us, we might not see our hearts and bodies start to slowly hollow. But to Him, it's undistinguishable.

It's what happens when we sit in a place of turmoil instead of power and peace. Its how so many people struggle with joy. He wants us to be joyful. His love is a love that surpasses our knowledge of love. That kind of love wants what is best for us. We may think we know what is best for us but, when we let control take over our lives we miss the joy.

It's like children. As they grow up their sweet tooth drives their consumption. They eat ice cream and candy and to them, thats the best food out there because it tastes so good how could it be bad? But a parent knows all too well that too much sugar causes cavities, sugar rushes leading to crashes, and even health problems because we are not meant to comsume ice cream for every meal. A good parent knows. He is our good parent. He knows.

We are children. His children but children non the less. A child needs a parent and

he is the best one out there. He loves like no other, cares deeper than the depths of the ocean, and his kindness blankets our lives.

When a child learns to trust and, in some ways, give up their control; the parent is able to teach and the child grows. He is an amazing teacher. In almost any instance Jesus speaks in the Bible, he teaches. Many ask Him questions and all want answers. But instead of giving the answer right away, he tells a story. A lesson that has character and meaning behind each syllable. Instead of us trying to control the story or even guess where it may go, maybe we just need to listen. To take it in with wonder and soak up the wisdom that comes from someone so kind and loving.

Have you ever thought about why kids like to play imaginary games? They have a kind of imagination and wonderstruck mind that allows them to exercise the make believe with belief. They are able to put aside the laws of physics and what the world says and create a story full of magic and wonder. They have fun. Jesus wants us to have fun and each of his stories and teachings steam from our want to create and be apart of story so great it seems imaginary.

His has a great imagination and get this, it's not imaginary. It's authentic and real. We can live in the now knowing a story teller is creating an epic story that we get to be apart of.

The best part, our story doesn't only effect us.

When we live knowing the creator, the people in our lives are brought into our story as we are theirs and through that lives change. That is why our story matters so much. That is why we need to tell it.

"They triumphed over Him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death." Revelations 12:11

We can triumph over evil and the need for control by the blood of Jesus that is continuously renewing us. Control shouldn't be goal, he should. His kingdom first above all else and that is where security is found. Where the unknown becomes known through the eyes of the one who knew it before we ever could understand it.