WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN

For the most part most of the time we think we are in control. This is important to us. We like to know how things are going to go. We rarely know such facts with great detail; yet, even just a few nuggets of "what's happening now" and we feel we are in the driver's seat of life. On occasion we take our turns at approaching a curve and finding we were totally unprepared for the next hill. Does God happen to have you there this week?

What are we to do when we think we have expended all we had to offer a situation only to discover we weren't even at the right ballpark; let alone the right game? What do we do when we feel desperately undone? Where do we turn when we no longer have a feel for direction? How shall we move when completely paralyzed in attempts to move forward?

I would direct you to a truth which might have slipped by. Do you recall that a part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit is self-control? Does it seem odd to you that the love of Christ controls us (II Cor. 5:14) and yet a part of the Spirit's role in our lives is to help us with self-control? What's going on with this?

In my shallow way I'll share with you that one of the things it may mean is that when we feel life is unravelling out of control, the Holy Spirit bears a fruit in us to put control back into our system. When God does any work in us, it is very difficult for us to grasp (or accept) because we like to have full analysis and final explanation. God won't tell us the "how" part. He reveals "He does" part and we are expected to believe it....without charts and media presentations as to how it works.

When you are stumped and don't know where to turn I believe you can expect to hear from Him. What shall you do next? Be responsible and let Him flow into and through your dilemma. He will give you the control to hold on. He will see you through it. You'll succeed, but never because of your own "fix-it" knack. He will take care.