I Think We Made A Wrong Turn...?

Well this week has been one crazy week, my grandfathers nephew died on Sunday so we have been going through the visitation/funeral steps this week, along with all of the Graduation crazyness this week, and Graduation Practice in the morning. All of the tradgedies that have been happening around our world in just the past month have really made me start thinking. The Flood in Nashville, The Oil Spill, The shooting in Algood yesterday because of a racial slurr, and the many many other actions being displayed. Last night our youth group studied Luke 9:23-27. The verse that really just caught my attention and made me think was --Your not in the drivers seat---I AM. Don't run from suffering, EMBRACE IT. Follow me and I will show you how. SELF HELP... is no help at all...Self sacrifice is the way...my way. to finding yourself..the real you. The main points of this is that we try soo hard to run our life the way we want to run it, do the things we want to do, go the places we want to go.. and many other things, when God, if we proclaim to be a Christian, is meant to be in the drivers seat or top priority/control of our everyday life...Quite honestly if we try to run our own life all we do is completley run it into the ground and end up in a hole that we just dig further and further down into. The second part of this scripture is just simply saying that we do not need to run from our suffering or problems but embrace them, not by ourselves, but with Gods help... he teaches us how to deal with the suffering and low-times in life with his help. We can try as much as we want to try and fix ourselves but we have to become dependent on God, sometimes it takes us hitting rock bottom and having no where else to go and nothing else to help us, to actually realize that we do need help, I have seen this happen with soo many of my friends and even my family... they try to run their own lives with only their wants and their ideas... and eventually they have all hit rock bottom. God doesnt want us at rock bottom but I believe with my whole heart that if you have to be put there, he will let it happen to make you realize how much you really do need him. Our God knows what we need, who we need, and when we need it. We have to let him in the drivers seat..Life works a whole lot better this way.