It's Easy to confuse...
/It's easy to confuse the sovereignty of God and our own routines in life.
- Control gives us a false sense of certainty
- Freedom can be scary
- Love = freedom + responsibility
I don't know many people in life that don't like to have control. Some of us are control freaks! Some of us come by it from our families and some of us have terrible things that happen to us and we take control of life to deal with it. However, it happens for us, it's understandable. Trouble is it limits the Life Overflowing in us. It limits our freedom. The sense of certainty it gives us just isn't worth the freedom that is inherent in the life God offers us.
Freedom let's go more than it takes control. Freedom can be scary. Letting go is scary. Think about the first time you jumped in a pool. What about the first time you let go of your handle bars on your bike as a kid? There's an element of fear that we go through on the way to letting go in life. The fear that comes with freedom is just a part of the goodness of life.
Our remedy lives in adding freedom and control together. Freedom that is Christian is always expressed in taking responsibility for our neighbor. Love is an expression of freedom expressed responsibly toward others. It is in this taking responsibility that we gain a sense of "certainty" in life and while we may not be able to "affect" what ultimately happens we do gain the "certainty" of knowing the One True Living God in us--for God is love.