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What If God Is God And We’re Not?

Hi, my name is Tim, and I am a controlaholic. My life and energy are spent attempting to control everything. If you knew me well you might be surprised by this addiction in my life, but I’m getting it out in the open. I may not come across as a typical controlaholic on the outside, but as far as trying to control the outcomes of my everyday life, I’m addicted. I should actually say that I was addicted and that my sobriety for these past four years has been incredibly freeing!

Before my actual freedom from striving to control the outcomes, I was so tired. It was as if by worrying, I could add a single day to my life and make things better. Worry is simply us attempting to play the role of God.

I am not saying that we should just lay inert in our beds all day waiting for things to happen, but when we are listening and following Jesus during our days, we can let the outcomes be up to Him. I mean, think of all the Scriptures we’ve read or even memorized; the promises we’ve sung. What if they were actually true? OK, I know and “believe” in my head that they are true, but what if I lived as if they were actually true?

The phrase “to believe” in our culture has lost its power. We tend to use it as a cognitive assent to something. For example, I believe in my heart that eating right and working out are absolutely the best ways for me to be healthy, but if I rarely do anything about them, then what does it matter? If this is the definition of belief, then we are in a world of hurt. If this is our idea of the way belief works, then this is also true: Satan and the demons believe so much that they actually shutter at the name of Jesus.

To believe is to be found living in. To be found walking as if it’s true.

So controlaholics, what if all that God is and says is true? What if all of the promises of God are actually true? What if God is God and we are not?

The more we seek first the Kingdom of God and not our own kingdoms or queendoms, we will learn how to follow Jesus in our daily lives, looking for where He’s at work and joining Him there.

Go look up a list of the promises of God and use one a week. Memorize it, and with a friend, walk it out as if it were true. Be found living in your belief this week!

-TIM