Many of us spend a lot of our time trying to keep God at bay. While we may outwardly profess that we know that God loves us, we can secretly fear God and wonder if he is really trustworthy. To enter into relationship with the divine is to let go of all control. Humans find that scary. We prefer remaining between a rock and a hard place to surrendering to God—’I might be between a rock and a hard place, but it is my rock and my hard place!’
We come up with a range of ‘spiritual insurance policies’ to stay safe. We can even dupe ourselves into thinking that our pious, religious activities are drawing us closer to God, when in reality we are disguising our insecurities by placing God into boxes.
But God is not a tame animal! The more energy we spend trying to control God, the bigger will be our shock when we discover how wrong we were. He is the God of surprises!
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