Control is an ILLUSION.

Control is a GOD category, not a HUMAN one.

The more we try to CONTROL, the more CHAOS we create.

Galatians 5:22–23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:2–3 The woman said, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

Genesis 3:4–5 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:7–10 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Three Reasons We Reach For Control

1. Control is rooted in DOUBTING God's GOODNESS.

What you try to control MOST reveals where you trust God the LEAST.

2. Control is driven by our DESIRE for AUTONOMY.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

We are at our freest not when we're in CHARGE, but when we give God CONTROL.

3. Control fuels FEAR and ANXIETY.

Control CREATES anxiety.

Peace comes when I stop PLAYING God and start TRUSTING God.

Control is an ILLUSION. Surrender is the SOLUTION.

If you don't NAME it, you can't TAME it.