- “You can have control or you can have growth but you can’t have both.” – Craig Groeschel
Galatians 2:20 (NIV) // I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- A Christian can’t live a life pleasing to God while also fighting for control
- Relationship control
- Financial control
- Emotional control
Matthew 26:39, 42 (NIV) // Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”
- NEVERTHELESS
- Surrender is the answer to our need for control
- The process of our transformation takes place at the point of our need/weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:19 (NIV) // But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
- How do we surrender? We wait on God.
- Waiting on God is an action based on confident assurance of grace to come.
- Waiting on God is internal rest that results in courageous action.
