Micromanager Confession

"Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails"- Proverbs 19:21 (NIV).

I have a confession to make: I am a micromanager. Not just of myself, but everyone and everything I have any influence over. This sin is a thorn in my side and I pray God will remove it, because I sure haven't had any success in doing so on my own. Micromanaging is how I internalize making the people and things I love safe and secure. which, in turn, keeps me from pain and hardship. I called the thorn a sin, because micromanaging is lack of faith. I'm one of the disciples, in the boat tossed by the violent storm, while Jesus slept on a pillow in the stern, one of the disciples who doubted Jesus could feed 4,000, when we had just seen Him feed 5,000, one of the disciples who thought all hope was lost after Jesus was crucified and buried, though He had told us He would rise from the dead. The sea was calmed, the 4,000 were fed, and Jesus rose from the grave. "What a wretched [person] I am! Who will rescue me from this body" (Romans 7:24)? The good news is that Jesus saves, He rescues us, He is the answer. We are in good company if the apostles bore the same thorn we all bear. Listen to God: "Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please'" (Isaiah 46:9-10). Take heart, the Lord's purpose will prevail.