"I love you, you goofball"

 Today in the One Year Bible, we read from Ezekiel 39:1-40:27. God tells Gog that He is their enemy. That's not good news for Gog. He says He is going to knock their bow out of one hand and their arrows out of the other, leaving them helpless. Then they will know that He is God.

That's something I realized recently about my life. Not that God is my enemy. But that He "messes" with me. See, I'm something of a control freak. I like things to be a certain way, and it makes me very unhappy when they're not that way. So when I go outside and the wind blows something out of my hand, or I put my cup on the roof of my car and the wind blows it over... it makes me mad. I've been working on being more patient about things like that.

But recently I realized something. God wants me to loosen up. To not have to have everything perfect all of the time. To trust Him to have things under control so that I don't have to control everything. And I got a picture in my mind of me carrying a bunch of things, and my girlfriend coming and knocking something out of my hand. I look at her like, "What the?? Why did you do that??" and she grins at me with that mischievous look that means "I love you, you goofball. Lighten up!" And that is how God wants me to see my life, and my need to control everything. 

"I love you, you goofball. Lighten up."

God, thanks for teaching me not to be a control freak.