Good morning…
Yesterday, my neighbor sent me a devotional link entitled “Peace When You Don’t Have Control.” What an gracious gift to receive on the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, a day when so many innocent people lost any semblance of control.
Now, up in the middle of this moonlit night, I am drawn back to these encouraging words.
Peace begins when you let God be God. When you stop rehearsing every possible outcome in your mind. When you pause the what-ifs and fix your mind on what’s true: he is still sovereign. He is still good. He is still near. This doesn’t mean you give up on effort or initiative. It means your effort flows from trust, not panic. Your actions are grounded, not grasping. When you realize that the outcome is not your job, that your job is to trust, obey, and abide, your shoulders start to relax. Your heart quiets down. Your soul can breathe again.
Often, it’s in the release of control that God’s peace floods in. Not because the situation changes, but because you do. You begin to realize that peace was never about having the perfect plan. It was about having the right perspective. A perspective that says, “Even here, even now, he is still God.” When you live from that place, it changes the way you move through the world. You stop over-functioning. You stop trying to fix everyone around you. You stop reacting out of fear and start responding with faith. You show up with calm instead of chaos, not because everything is under control, but because you’ve stopped needing it to be.
There’s a deep kind of peace available to you today. But you won’t find it in your plans. You’ll find it in your posture. A posture of surrender. A heart that says, “God, I trust you with what I can’t control.” That kind of trust opens the door to peace you didn’t even know you needed.
May peace fill our lungs and release our tense shoulders, as we return, again and again, to a state of surrender: “God, I trust you with what I can’t control.”
You will keep the peace, a perfect peace, for all who trust in You, for those who dedicate their hearts and minds to You (Isaiah 26:3, VOICE).
…Sue…
