Acceptance


There was a man in our church who would often ask you “Who is in charge of your life anyways?” There are time where hearing this was not encouraging at all, but you know what? I am glad he asked that question. Often I was looking for sympathy for my “hard life” that I was going through. Wanting to have a pity party and looking for others to invite. If it were not for that question, yeah I probably would have succeeded and not have been any better for it.

There is not a single person out there that can say every dream they have had for their lives have come true. Sure, we can lie to ourselves and say it has been perfect. Sure, we can blame others for the problems that have arisen and say it is because of them that out “perfect life” did not come true. Too many times, we are living in our fantasy world cultivated by movies, books, and web page snap shots. Seeing the “perfect life” or perfect family or couple and allow it to cause us to become unhappy with our life. What a shame that we do not see what we truly do have.

You have no control over what happens in your life. Yes, you have your plans of how your day will go, but will they come about? I plan to go to work today. I plan on going home after work and spending time with the family. I then plan on going to church. A number of things could interrupt any one of these events. Such as the car breaking down, an illness strikes a family member and alters the rest of the day. Alternatively, something even more tragic, such as the death of a loved one or your spouse walking out on you. None of these would fit into any of our idea or dreams of a “perfect life”.

What then do I have control over in my life? Acceptance of what is happening and how you emotionally respond to it. Unfortunately, our emotional response a lot of the time is anger and discontentment. This is because we are still trying to control the uncontrollable. What is the answer then? Trust in God. Simply that. Trust that He is in control and knows what is happening. Trust that everything good or bad in your life will work out to your benefit or the benefit of another. If you are saved, your life is to be a testimony for Christ. He gave everything for you when he gave His life for your sins and rose again 3 days later. How simple it is for Him (the creator of the universe and the one who holds it all together) to work through the events that happen in your life.

I say all this from a place where I could look at God and cry out “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?” This has happened and shows how week my faith in Him is sometimes. Today things have not turned around…. Yet. Today I can keep my eyes on him and KNOW that He is working through the lives of my family, others, and myself. God loves us to much to leave us in the pit that He saved us from. Sometimes the pulling us out of that put requires some “painful” events to bring us to ourselves and draw us closer to Him.

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