Who Is In Control?
July 10, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

 

     James S. Hewett once wrote that a newly elected politician was visiting Washington, D.C., to get acquainted. He was visiting the home of one of the ranking senators, who was trying to interpret the bizarre wonder of the capital. As they stood looking out over the Potomac River, an old, deteriorating log floated by in view on the river. The old-timer said, “This city is like that log out there.” The fledgling politician asked, “How’s that?” The senator came back, “Well, there are probably more than one hundred thousand grubs, ants, bugs, and critters on that old log as it floats down the river. And I imagine every one of them thinks that he’s steering it.”

 

      It is often this way in other areas of life. Once people feel they may have gained a little control, they then seem to want it all. When, truly, the only time humanity is in complete control is after we turn complete control over to God. Letting God lead your life shows you have learned to control your will by letting God’s will lead. Once we try to rule our destiny, rejecting God’s leading, God removes His hand and lets us do just that. Then, 99% of the time, we will make a mess of it.

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

     When we learn to control our desire for control, life becomes so much more enjoyable. We need to give to God what is due Him. He deserves all our allegiance and all our lives. We must strive to yield total control to the One who created us. After we do so, it is hard to control the joy we sense from the freedom of not having to be the one who steers the log down the river of life anymore.

 

What might be in your control that you need to give to God?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  July 10, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
2 Chronicles 26-28 / Psalm 10
Proverbs 10 / Matthew 13

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
GEzra 8-10 / Acts 12