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“God never panics. I love that.”

A thought by Craig Groeschel from his book, Dare to Drop the Pose (p. 114). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Now that is something we need to grab hold of today, isn’t it?

Craig says, “I always want to be in control of the car. When someone else is driving, I tend to offer obnoxious advice, because my survival instinct cries out for some kind of control. Sometimes I have to surrender control and trust the outcome to someone else, but this doesn’t come naturally to me.

“With God, the ‘control’ I have to surrender over and over is only an illusion. I never really have control of my life and circumstances, even when I pretend to.

“Have you acknowledged that truth? You’re not in control. You never have been.

“If that’s true—and it is—then why do we try to exercise power that has never been ours? (That was a rhetorical question, but the answer has a lot to do with human pride.)”

He goes on, “When I finally get around to genuinely trusting the only One who’s in control, I discover amazing comfort. God never panics. I love that. Never in history has God said, ‘Wow, I didn’t see that coming. What in the galaxy am I going to do now?’ God knows more about what you’re worried about than you do. And He … is … in … control.”

The next time you are in a situation and you are in a panic why not just stop and remind yourself that God never panics.  He doesn’t, and he wants you to give that worry to him and let him take care of it.  You see if you are in a panic you have no way to solve the problem so give it to him and don’t take it back. Would you relax and let him solve the problem in his way and in his time?  Would you let him have control?


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