How To Find True Life in a Spinning Out-of-Control World

This world, it has me spinning. Just when I think I have a hold on it, it slips from my grasp. 

A New Year. A new beginning, everyday a new beginning. Yet at times it just feels old. Like it’s slipped past once before. Like it’s de ja vu all over again. 

My heart yearns for the yesteryear’s, but they are but a blink. It leaps forward to live the future, today and tomorrow, for all its worth. Compassionately, efficiently, passionately, Godly.

Yet my flesh would have it differently. Satan would play the “me” game. And I’m back in the circle of whatever feels good. 

When the children were little. That’s when I had control. Didn’t I? The predictability of my days dictated so.

There were some crazy, screaming, “why did I ever do this” days to be sure. But I lived the queen. The days mostly answered to my direction. Or so I thought. 

Yet we live as kings and queens but for a moment. An illusion that we know what we are doing. 

Now I fight for a semblance of control, of the familiar. Of family togetherness and comfort and sameness. 

True Life

I fight against losing myself. When really isn’t that where true life lies? In the emptying of me? 

When I lose, I win. Isn’t that the way Jesus put it? (Matthew 16:25; Luke 9:24) The least is the greatest. (Luke 9:48)

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My flesh is but rotting. But His Spirit in me—now that’s something to fight for! And He has. All the way to the cross.

And I have but to let go. No more fighting. No more grasping at a world spinning out of control. It’s not mine to have. 

I have Life at my fingertips. Will I grab it and hold on for all it’s worth? Or will I reach for something that in the end will be but a wisp, dissipating with the passing days? 

You and I—try as we might, we weren’t meant to be kings and queens—to be in control. We were created to be princes and princesses—children of the One True King.

That’s how we need to live. The days directed by the One who  knows exactly how many each of us has. 

Days that offer True Life. 

“I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.” (John 10:10)

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Reflection: Do you, like me, struggle with days of feeling out of control? What is the worst that will happen if you just let go and let God control and direct your days? 

Yippee, Lisa-Jo and 5 minute Friday is back! Linking with a crowd that writes uninhibited for 5 minutes (or a few more) on a given topic. It is a wonderful exercise in letting the words flow. Click the button (icon) to check out more posts or consider linking up yourself. Today’s word is: “Fight.”