1 Peter 5:6-10, Matthew 6:9-10, Matthew 7:24-29

Matt Summerfield reflects on our relationship with control and our relationship with God.



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God uses trouble to expose our weaknesses.

Firstly, the weakness of our circumstances and the things outside of us that we have become too dependent on.

Secondly, the weakness of our character and the things inside of us that we have become too dependent on.

If only we truly believed and lived the cliché of 'Let God be God' and yet too often those words are just empty, hollow, triumphalism, because we don't want God to be God at all; we want to be God and to control our destiny.

To release control is to make yourself vulnerable to others and to God.

To admit that you are too broken and self-centred to control your destiny.

Brene Brown reminds us that embracing vulnerability means embracing, "uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. It sounds like truth and feels like courage, but it's never weakness".

And so I close with the words of Elsa from Frozen as we choose what the right response to control should be.

Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone!

Here I stand
In the light of day
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway! CR

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