Monday, October 31, 2011

Is CONTROL in the life of a disciple of Christ, a good thing or a bad thing? What makes it good or bad?

I noticed the word is "Control" - not "self - control".  

If the Control is over others, then, no, it is manipulation, which is witchcraft. 

If the Control is over situations or circumstances, I think it is a false control, because while we have authority over those things that we can line up in Gods will, we cannot control anything else just for the sake of control itself. To think we are in control of anything is misleading, we are deceived. We have to allow God to be in control of things. 

Self-control is of course a good discipline. God requires this for us to be able to serve Him fully. I think we need a lot of "self - control" for God to put in in "Control" over other things. We have to prove that we can be trusted. 

We also need to know our limitations, and be able to trust God to take us beyond those limitations.