Many times in life, we get carried away with events and happening around us and in the midst of all the saga, we not only lose ourselves, we also lose the position of God in our lives and become that person that is not sure of what to come but we got it all wrong. 2 Timothy 1:7 says; I have not given you the spirit of fear but of power, and of love and of sound mind, so we need to get to the point where we operate not only in the situation that is around us but in the bold and excellent spirit that has been granted to us by our heavenly father. Over the years, I have come to realize that God only has a particular way of dealing with me; I know that might sound vague and conceited but trust me, when I say that a particular way that it is true. I am that person that wants to be in control of everything happening in my life, I want to know what to expect in the next minute, figure out why mixing yellow with blue will give you green, I mean how? And I struggled a lot with letting go and letting God handle the situation, even the ones that are so obvious that I cannot handle, I struggled and sometimes I still struggle with giving it to the God and not worry about it.
But the beautiful thing about God is no matter how much I stress about any issue, He will do it when He is ready and most importantly in His own way; this was a big struggle because at a point in my life, I had no understanding about how God deals with me as a person. If I want something, I want it right now, I am sure that many times, God just looks at me and smile. After I reached my twenties, I began to see some signs in that direction; I would struggle, do everything in my power to attain a height or get something working for me but the end result will be very futile and leaves me frustrated Along the line, in the middle of a random conversation with one of my spiritual mothers, I recall telling her that I need to understand how God relate and deals with me as an individual and stop expecting Him to respond to me the way He would respond to the other person. Also at that point, I began to recount different times and incidents in my life where my tantrums made no difference but God still did what He would do when He was determined to do it. Chai!!!
So after that, I decided to let things flow just as God wants it, not that it is easy or I do it all the time but i make an effort to do that all the time.
What I am saying to us today in essence is you need to actually know yourself in God, and then know and understand your God, understand what position you hold when it comes to Him and understand how He deals with you as a person because if you have not come to terms with how God deals with you, it would difficult to back down when it is necessary but the moment you know your God and understand specifically how He relates and deal with you, it would make the journey a lot easier and this would make the relationship smooth and easy. But you have to KNOW YOUR GOD."Knowing God makes it easier for you to relate with Him on the level that both of you are comfortable with, and makes it easier for Him to trust you with situations" (Adeola Oladele)
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