How Can I Get Things Under Control?

Anxiety and stress is a major problem today.  When things get OUT of CONTROL it can feel like your world is being ripped apart.  It is during those times that you have to keep yourself in peace by guarding your heart and soul with the Word of God.    If sorrows have flooded your soul and you cannot seem to find any solace, the Holy Spirit was given to us by God to be our comfort.  It is the comfort of the Holy Spirit that helps us overcome the hurts and the sorrows and grief of this world.  

It is easy to forget that God is in control and to try to gain control of everything around us.  The problem is that while God is big enough to hold the whole world in his hands, we are not big enough to hold it in ours.  You cannot hold the whole world in your hands, it is too heavy, too weighty, it can't be done without adding terrible loads of stress and anxiety to our lives.  

2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:

4By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

 

He has given us what?  ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE.  That's good because we got a lot of living to do.  God has already given all things that we need pertaining to this life and also godliness  THROUG WHAT?   Through the knowledge of him who has called us...

 

It is our knowledge of him that opens up the doors for us to have all things that we need pertaining to life and godliness.  If you are lacking in life, then you are lacking in the KNOWLEDGE of God.  How so?  Because when you understand the Word of God and know how to apply it to your life you are able to live life to it's fullest no matter what your circumstances.    The knowledge of God leads you to life and love and these things are able to thrive in your life no matter if you are rich or poor, sick or healthy, free or slave.   If you have to have perfect circumstances to have peace and joy than you are at the mercy of whatever life throws at you.  The power of God is that we are able to have peace, joy and happiness in the midst of whatever trial or storm that we face. 

 

Who has called to us what?  He called us to glory and virtue.  And by these we are given exceedingly and great and precious promises.

 

God give us great and precious promises.  He said, "Lo, I am with you, even to the end of the age."  He said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."  He said, "He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."    And his great and precious promises go on and on, these are just a few.   When you have the KNOWLEDGE of God you have everything YOU NEED!  These great and precious promises are our guarantee that GOD HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL.

 

If God has everything under control, than YOU and I have no reason to try to get everything under control.  God does not need us to do his job for him.  If we would learn to REST in Jesus and quit trying to get everything under control our stress levels would go down.  Resting in faith will lower your stress levels, and bring more peace, joy and happiness to your life. 

 

5And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;

7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.

8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Add to your knowledge what?  Self control!  The only thing that God ask you to get under control is YOUR self!    Just think of the people that you know.  How many of the situations they face would be a lot better if they would just get themselves under control!  How better this world would be if everyone on the planet would just get themselves under control!

 

I have looked all through the Bible and the only the only thing that God tells us to control is OURSELVES!    We try to control everything and anything under the sun except for ourselves.  Our thoughts, emotions, anxieties, fears, and most everything else is way out of control and for some reason we think that controlling things around us is a good idea.  How can you control the things around you if you can't even control the things INSIDE of you.   God ask us to use self-control not to control everyone else. 

 

Put your faith in God and let him have control, rest in him and watch your stress and anxiety levels go down!