Quit trying to be God.....

and surrender to God. Sounds easy enough, but in today's world we have so many things to surrender to that surrendering to God seems to be last on our list.
" Just the other day our car broke down. Finances already tight as they are, little things like that can really bring stress into your life. Instantly worry and stress began to set in. It wasn't one of those times where you take your car in right when it happens and they give you the estimate and then you can get it out of your head. It was one of those days when we called my mom and borrowed her truck, went to work and had to wait all day for my dad to get off work and take a look at the car. When you have a day or two to think about everything that could be wrong, the costs of everything that could be wrong, every bad thought imaginable begins to creep in. We called each other a couple of times that day, both of us stressed but we never let each other truly know the levels of stress we both felt. We tried our best to lift each other up and think positive. I am pretty sure the positive part only took place while we were on the phone with each other. It's funny how thoughts can grow and I was reading the purpose driven life, Christs suffering did not start when the beating occured, Christs suffering began when he knew what was going to happen to him. If something like that was going to happen to me, I don't know if I would want to know beforehand. I can't imagine the stress. He didn't run from his problems, he faced them with prayer. Lots of prayer. He went to his friends and had them surround him and keep guard while he prayed. I would have been planning a course of action, getting a team together to fight back. Why, becuase I would have been trying to be God. Just like when my car broke down, I let the stress take over, I didn't start praying about my problems. I might have prayed about it once, but I didn't do it right. I didn't completely turn it over to God. I was not having a good day, so I went to my friend and expressed my stress to her. She seems to always know what to say. I know she prayed for me, she always prays when I ask her to. I came home that day, and my non-mechanical husband had done some research on the internet and found many people had the same problems with their car as we did and found what could have been wrong with our car. It turns out, all we had to do is unhook the battery and rehook it back up, and it reset the computer that disabled the fuel pump, and it started. What did it cost to fix my car my, my friend asked the next day, and I told her it costs nothing. You should have seen her face light up. You should have seen my mechanical dad's face when he found out my non-mechanical husband fixed our car. There is a reason we are not God, so quit trying to be God and let God be the God of your life. If you give everything to him, he will give everything back and then some.
Next time you have some time to think about your problem and what could be wrong, maybe it's your car, maybe it's other things in your life, maybe you are waiting on some test results, think of what Christ did while he waited for his death. Not just any death, but a very crucial death. Stress does not get any greater than what he faced, the only thing greater is the fact that God had to watch his son die. If you mimic his ways, God will see you through. But remember, God did not remove the problem, God gave him strength to get through it all. Look for that strength.

Strength that comes from:

• Friendships
• Christ
• Prayer

I hope you have a blessed week. If you want to find your purpose, visit fbcpocola.org and let us help you.