We’re in a series entitled Faith, Hope & Love at Cross Point where we’ve been looking at how God uses our faith to increase our intimacy and trust with Him. As usual I’ve found myself in the middle of struggling with the very topic I’m in the midst of teaching about.

I’ve got a situation that is driving me absolutely crazy.

I want answers.

I want explanations.

I want guarantees.

I want control.

And yet what God wants is for me to simply trust Him.

Over the past two days I’ve felt God saying, “Pete, take your hands off of this. Stop trying to control and maintain what you cannot control and maintain.”

I bet there are a lot of you who are just like me. We have fallen victim to faithless lives because we’ve bought into the illusion of control.

And control IS the greatest of all illusions.