One In-Charge

When necessary, I can be a take-charge person.  It seems by default, however, the take-charge person was always Mama at meal time, homework time, and bed time.  Now, the boys are grown and gone, but little has changed – Mr. Bill still looks to Mama.  Ironically, I never asked to be the in-take-charge person at any of those times!

 

God wants to be The In-Charge Person of our lives. Unfortunately, we don't readily give Him free reign!  Why, we mostly live as if God needs our help or

He's just not gonna make it!  In her book "Let's Roll" Lisa Beamer says, "It's a time of uncertainty, and many people are looking for something to cling to. I hope for you that you can cling to the One who has all the power, and all the love, and all the care, because He's the one who's really in charge."  Oh,

how easily we forget who's really "in charge."  During an illness many years ago, I learned the one "in-charge" is always relative -- relative to how available, how capable, and how useful he or she is.  When we insist on doing things our own way, the messes we make usually remind us just how "useful,

capable, and available" we really are.  It's one way we learn how much we need the Real One in charge.  He doesn't want us to be, nor does He need us to be ... in-charge. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11).  Most of us don't even know what we're going to do the next hour, the next day, the next week, the next month, and certainly not the next year.  The Father knows and His promise to us is for good not evil, and a hopeful future. He knows the future, and He holds all the hope -- aren't you

glad He's really the One in-charge!