Handing it over to God

I have recently talked with a couple of friends over the last day, and they are going through some situations in life that they simply don't have too much control over. Some want to hand it over to God, some do not. Some simply feel that it is too tough to hand things over to God. As I have said in my other blog, I have not been close to God over the last year, maybe going on two years. Over the last 10 months I obviously had a problem and I did not want to hand it over to God. It's tought. But then there is always something that happens in life and you realize, well damn I think this is God talking to me, nudging at me telling me I need to talk to Him, I need to pray to Him, that he wants to take control of my situations in life. I do agree with my friends that it is very tough. It's ironic that even the friends with such strong faith in God even have a hard time dealing with this issue of handing it over to God. Maybe it's something that God has instilled in us, or maybe it's definitly the fact that He did give us free will. God gave us the free will to allow him to handle situations. We have to be humble and show humility towards God in order to do this! It is pride that holds us from allowing God to step into these situations in our life that obviously hold us from solving these problems. God says he wants us to lay down our pride. Proverbs 11:2 says that "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom." So as we lay down our pride and be humble, God will step in and give us the wisdom to handle the status of these situations that are beyond our control.

Proverbs 18:12 "Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor."