When you are being chased by notifications, calendar requests, and the demand to always be ‘on’ don’t you feel like you’re losing control a bit?
Sure you might say that you’re taking control of your calendar, or taking control of your life. But as we all know, there can be a bit of hubris to that kind of talk.
We all know that things can fall apart quickly.
The work piles up.
The unexpected crashed down.
And we are suddenly out of control.
The temptation when that happens is that we grip the one part of our life that we think we can control more easily: our relationships.
When things spin out of control in our circumstances, we can get pretty grippy with people and our expectations for them.
Suddenly we become the person who needs others to come through for them.
Your expectations will get unreasonably high.
Your impatience with other people’s limits will fester.
Your grip on others will seem like the only thing that you can control in your life.
But what happens is that as you squeeze others, you end up trying to make them give you the control over your life that you crave.
And they can’t fix that.
So you have to loosen your grip on people. And you have to relinquish your grip on your entire life. When we do this in submission to God we gain freedom.
“Live as people who are free,
not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil,
but living as servants of God.”
1 Peter 2:16
