Ever feel like everything is out of control? Ever feel as if no matter how hard you try you just can’t get all the loose ends together?
I remember taking my grandson Carter to a game center once. It had all those fancy video games, small bowling lanes and other interesting things for little ones (and not so little ones) to spend their quarters on. There was one game that got him squealing. The “Whack a Mole.”
It had a flat surface, and a soft mallet chained to it. There were holes in the surface and little things would pop out of the holes randomly. The way you scored was to whack those little things as they emerged from the holes. The problem: you never knew where the next one would pop out. By the time you got an aim on one, it would tuck away and a different one would emerge, and the pace kept getting faster and faster.
Sounds like life at times. I’ve got my little mallet and I’m keeping watch and every now and then I get a good pop at one when it rears up, but I can never get them all, and when I finally seem to get in a rhythm, the pace quickens. I need a bigger mallet, or fewer problems, or a slower pace. I need to get control, I shout!!! Or do I? Am I the one that is supposed to have control of my life? Is it even possible?
“Our citizenship is in heaven. We eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” [Philippians 3:20-21]
See that wonderful little phrase shouting from the middle of those verses …“by the power that enables HIM to bring everything under his control.” Our Lord Jesus Christ is the one with the power, the power that enables Him to control everything, not us.
Where’s the power? In Him. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” [Galatians 2:20]
The only control we have is to surrender our lives by faith to the Son of God. Everything else about our lives is in His control. We don’t need a bigger mallet; we need to surrender to the Lord.
