God’s Got It Under Control
Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall. -- Psalm 55:22
Some days just seem so overwhelming. Everybody wants something. Nobody is satisfied. Financial pressures pound you. What can go wrong does. Need I go on?
Most of life is just stuff that keeps happening. We know that. The laundry never gets completely done because by the time we finish something else is dirty. Same with grocery shopping. It’s one of those tasks that never ends.
Other things aren’t so easy to brush aside. A lingering illness. Financial stress. Job insecurity. Marital discord. Family feuds. These sorts of things rock our very foundation -- unless we are firmly grounded in our LORD.
A dear friend turned down a new job just two months ago because it would have meant a serious pay cut. Now she’s found out she could lose her job to staff cutbacks in May. She’s scared and kicking herself for not taking the other job.
Another woman can give a detailed list of all the jobs she’s applied for. She’s still looking. Her finances are dwindling lower and lower and she’s about to give up hope.
A man struggles with depression as his health fails. He wonders why God brought him this far only to abandon him to an incurable cancer. His wife has gone home and his daughters live far away. He feels so alone.
Sometimes I try to joke that if stress kills, then I’m already dead. Except it isn’t funny. Stress is real and can seem to control us unless we turn it over to God. That sounds a lot easier than it is.
We are taught to take control of our own lives. Except many of us feel we have no control over our days. We are told to toughen up and just deal with whatever is happening. But the endless days make the tough façade harder and harder to hold up.
The good news is that God hears our silent cries. He holds out His arms to life us up and hold us tight. And we can learn to give our cares, our worries, our concerns to Him. One day at a time. Sometimes one moment at a time. Refusing to allow Satan to control our minds.
So tell God you want Him to take over. Give Him everything that seems impossible to fix, to deal with, to accept. Let Him take care of it. God loves you so much. And He is all powerful. Never compare what you can do to what God can do because He can do anything. So relax. God’s got it all under control.
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