Control

Most of us like to have control over the events and circumstances that impact us. We like to plan what will happen to us and for us and we are driven to make sure that it all works out favorably for us. And yet, there is so much of what happens in our lives that we are unable to control.

II Corinthians 5:14-15 says, “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.” We want to control everything that impacts us. But our control rejects the love of Christ for us and opens the door for sin to control us. But because He died for us and removed the penalty for our sin, we are now free to live for Him, motivated by our love for Him.