Who Is In Control?

There is a song called "I Believe" which is by the Deluge band and within the song there is a line that says, "Never gonna change my mind about You". I have seen people (including myself) "change" their mind about God; anywhere from a complete turning away from God, or rejecting Him in the moment when we don't think following Him is very convenient, or even simply not doing what He wants because it's not what we want. All three of these instances are examples of when we put ourselves on the throne and decide what we want to do and don't particularly care what God thinks.

Anytime that we ignore God and His desires for us, for our destiny, for our day-to-day living style we are essentially saying that our opinion is more important that God's and that we have changed our mind about God being our Lord. Oh my, how self-righteous we can all be, because let's face it, we have all done it at some point, and if we don't think so, then we're in denial because nobody is perfect. But, oh, to one day be the person He desires me to be, someone who does everything He wants and always put myself and my own feeling to the side and ignore them when they don't agree with His will, oh, how I do long for that, how about you?

I know that when I read my Bible and worship Him through prayer and song that I become transformed because He is welcomed into my life and I am able to continually keep Him as Lord over my life. But yet, I know that it is not enough to do these things, I need to allow Him into my life completely, to choose to listen to and follow Him every moment of every day and truly never change my mind, even in a split second, about who God is to me. The only way I can ever become all that God desires for me to be is through reading the Bible, worshipping Him through prayer and song, and most importantly, having his Holy Spirit not only living in me, but through me. The Holy Spirit must penetrate my entire life so that when people look at me, they see Him and not the selfish person that I am without Him.

I love God with all of my heart and want God to be in control of my life, and I will never change my mind!