It sounds good to be in control, right? You are making sure everything is going well around you, doing your best to help others be their best and making sure you are controlling yourself, too.

Plus, people talk about how important it is to have self-control, so control MUST be a good thing. Right?

It’s really not and believing you can control everything around you is a fallacy.

Yes, it’s important to control ourselves, like our attitudes, actions & behaviors, but that’s it. We LITERALLY cannot control anything else but ourselves. And even the plans we make for ourselves, we can’t control if those things work out because it’s something outside of ourselves.

But we THINK we CAN control everything around us and that gets us in trouble.

We can be troubled emotionally and sometimes financially and with others.

You push and push and push for things to happen that you want or believe should happen but don’t realize it’s much easier to rely on God to manage things. But you’re worried God doesn’t know what you want (He does) and that it won’t happen when you want it if you leave it to Him (it might not but only because He knows the best timing), and if you DO leave it to Him, you won’t get the credit.

Here are 5 reasons why we need to let go of all ideas of control and surrender our lives to God:

1. We Don’t Know Everything
   1. The understanding we have about the world is VERY limited. We don’t know as much as we think we know. 
   2. Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
2. Feeling Anxious & Worried Isn’t Fun
   1. Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to worry anymore? That’s what can happen (for the most part) if we allow God to handle everything in our lives. 
   2. 1 Peter 5:7, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”
3. We Should Be Trusting God With Everything
   1. He is our Heavenly Father and we should trust Him like He is. 
   2. Romans 8:28, “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
4. It’s Never Us Anyway
   1. Everything that happens in life is because of God. We think it’s in our own abilities, but it’s not. And the sooner we recognize this, the easier it will be to surrender everything to God and no longer feel the need to try to control everything.
   2. Proverbs 16:9, “We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.”
5. God Knows Everything & Controls Everything
   1. Despite what you might think, He’s got all the control. We think we have control because God allows us free will to either make the choice to surrender to Him in faith & trust, or to get in our own ways and struggle a bit more. 
   2. Jeremiah 29:11, “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ‘They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’”

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