Written by Winn Collier, a contemporary author. This is an excerpt from his book “Let God.”
There is a difference between what we think God should do for us and what God actually does for us. There is a difference between whom we imagine God to be and who God actually is. Becoming a follower of God is hard because it requires that we submit ourselves fully to a God who is other than us. We must let go of our insistence that we know best what we need. We must let go of our demands that God act when and how we demand. With each letting go, we release layers of our self-protection. This self-protection is our futile attempt to manage life. It’s the same seductive force pushing at us to attempt to manage God. But God won’t leave us to wallow there. He will help us, but he must upset our addiction to control. He will have to unravel all the demands we have placed on him. This is why God’s disappointment is necessary. He is helping us, peeling back our fingers, loosening our white-knuckled grip from our life. He has to; if we will ever be free in his care, he has to.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight [Proverbs 3:5-6]
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