Have you ever met someone that seemed to thrive on drama? I have. It seems there are some folks that seem intent on driving us bonkers. It is as if their purpose in life is to drive us over the hill! If we could fix them, repair them, help them, our lives would somehow be better, happier; but really, we know that life doesn’t work that way, don’t we?
There are well over seven billion people on spaceship earth and not one of us is quite right. Well, let me qualify that statement; there are exceptions. You and I for example. Although... one of us might be questionable...! (Sorry about that.)
Perhaps our difficulty lies in focus.
Paul - yeah, that Paul - lamented that there were certain issues in his life that he couldn’t control. We don’t really know whether those issues were real, or hypothetical; after all, this was Paul. But let’s hear what he has to say about it:
He starts out by being very honest.
"Oh what a pathetic piece of work I am.” (my paraphrase)
“That which I want to do, I don’t do, and every rotten, nasty, unholy thing that I don’t want to do, that’s what I do. O wretched human that I am! Who shall deliver me from what is destroying me? Praise God, Jesus Christ, my lord and master, my friend, He will deliver me and give me the victory that I seek.“ (paraphrased from Romans 7)
So now, at last perhaps, we are getting at the root of the conundrum about fixing crazy!
Perhaps it isn’t so much those others that need fixing, as much as me!
If we could fix others it would still leave the root cause untouched. Yes, I am the main problem.
O Holy Papa God, help us to realize what we can control and what we can’t. Confusing these two just sets us up for failure and a lot of frustration and unhappiness. Help me to surrender all to you, because ultimately, you are our blessed hope and our deliverer. Thank you O Holy One. In Jesus' wonderful name we ask it, Amen
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