You Are Not In Control
1. When you look at porn you do it because you feel like you are in control.
Click…type….dot com…fantasize…click…close…control.
2. When you binge and purge you do it because you feel like you are in control.
Eat…eat…eat…walk…close…lock…barf…clean…control.
3. When you talk smack about your leader you do it because you feel like you are in control.
Talk…disagree…walk…brew…call…”I can’t believe he”…hang up…control.
4. When you flirt with that other married person you do it because you think you are in control.
Smile…stare…heartbeat…walk away…walk back…smile…heartbeat…innocent…control.
5. When you start believing the hype about who you are you “try harder” because you think you are in control.
4God…praise…4God…praise…4God/Me…praise…4Me…praise…4ME…4ME…4ME…control.
Let me let you in on a little secret.
You are not in control. At all.
After you finish masturbating, you don’t spoon with your 15″ of LCD and tell it you love it.
After you binge and purge your heart rate speeds up then slows down.
After you hang up the smack talking phone call, your confidant is not impressed with you.
After smiling at whomever that is, your kids and wife know. Trust me. They do.
After you start believing the hype, you forget the hype will leave, and you end up in a str8 jacket.
This is going to sound so simple. But it’s not. That’s the point. So I write this to remind us all…
Let God dominate you into submission in EVERYTHING to Him.
I promise you will slowly// stop trying to have sex with your computer screen, stop trying to be the skinniest, stop trying to take his job, stop trying to convince yourself that his or her smile is anything more than just that…a smile, and stop trying to convince yourself that the hype will not end…it will.
And when it ends, because it will end…
You might just have a family, health, and relationships that reek of Jesus.
Not of you.
Los
Man intense blog but totally kicked me in my grill. Good stuff.
dnowcaswell.org – talking about that HYPE
THIS IS STRONG and timely…
LOVE LOVE LOVE Transparency!
Speak it, live it.
Lord help me be about it, not just talk about it.
Tattoo THIS HEART of MINE>
are you saying that masturbation is a sin? come on Carlos.
No one said sin.
But someone said fake.
Yup!!!
It is such a relief to be able to turn it all over to Him and let Him control it. No situation catches God off guard. It's all about trusting Him to do what is best for me, and He will because He loves, loves, loves me.
Thanks for reminding me again Los.
Confirmation in the nation! Thank you for speaking forth the TRUTH in LOVE.
I don't know… we just met about 20 seconds ago online… but I think I've found a friend.
Please write more… and more… and more.
Wow! That is a killer post. It kills your desire to fall into these mistakes.
I just had a talk to my dad the other day and he told me:
But remember, what ever you do with your life, wherever you go, no matter what or where or when, you may think your life is under your control and so is not. Your life is in Gods hands, even if you fall apart, he will be there when you come back, when you want to come back and you can´t He will go for you.
I think, leaving everything in God´s hands is not as the servant did with his lord. We are called friend, and we are called son. We are to obey and listen, always knowing that we could choose different, but deciding not to. We are to follow Him as when we follow a friend´s advice, as when we follow our parents orders, with gratitute and love, trusting that He wants the best for us, no matter we can´t understand it in that moment. The son of a king, obeys and follows, knowing that he is listening to a king, but in his heart, he is seeing his father, listening to his father and the way he accomplishes the command, the feeling in his heart is different.
Wow. This is the first time I visited your site (thanks, Bianca of In The Name of Love). This is awesome. I’ll definitely be coming back for more. Keep up the great work. The world needs more of this.
I am in control, that is what free will is about.