I wanted to elaborate further on my experience from Week 3 of Reset. Week 3 was about surrendering to God the parts of your life that you like to control. It took me longer than the week allotted to finally figure out what I need to work at surrendering. It just was not that obvious to me, but that is what is cool about hitting the reset button and spending focused time being introspective. I have been thinking a lot about next steps lately in my job, ministry, and for my family. By nature, I am a planner and like to be prepared for whatever may come my way. If you know me well, then you know that God’s plan beats my plans down a lot. The great thing about God’s plan though is that it always works out better than mine even if it makes me really uncomfortable.
As I was praying earlier this week I realized that I was spending a lot of time talking to God about the future. I have a lot of questions and a lot of ideas of where I want my future to go. Something clicked in that moment and I realized that I really want control over my future. I think that it is natural to believe that I have some kind of control over my destiny. Our culture says that if you work hard enough you can have anything that you want. Obviously the decisions that I make do come into play with my future, but there are a lot of factors that are out of my control. It is time to stop worrying about the future and stop trying to control it. I need to surrender the future to God and trust Him because He has a plan for me that is way better than mine.
