We’re continuing our Trusting God Series, with the topic of control. When it comes to trust, we often struggle with surrender, as we’d much rather control all the outcomes. We like to control our work ,our spouse, our kids, our finances, our health, our loss, our pain. We think if we can just control everything, then we won’t get hurt, or experience pain. Today we’ll discuss why control is an illusion.

“But I trust in you, Lord. I say, ‘You are my God.’”- Psalm 31:14

Control Is An Illusion

The first time I sent my fourth grader to summer camp for one week, I took his cute little clothes and folded each outfit and placed it in a Ziploc bag, with the day written on it. Day clothes and evening church clothes had separate bags and it was orderly system that I thought would help my random, non-sequential child to function well and at least wear the right outfit. He returned from camp with several of those bags unopened. Twelve years later, when child number five went to her first summer camp I said, “you should go pack for camp.” And she did, all by herself, with no Ziploc bags in sight!