A question worth asking.

Have you ever stopped to think about the things that you allow to control you? I was thinking about this question today and it’s quite overwhelming. I’m not just talking about the big stuff, you know, nicotine, alcohol, sex, and so on, but the smaller stuff. The stuff that goes unnoticed without careful introspection.

I don’t want to make any suggestions, but there are a lot of things that are possibilities. Some of them aren’t malignant in anyway, their just regular parts of life. Others are just as normal, but not so friendly. For example, I once heard this quote, that pointed out how extremely frustrating it would be to eat if God hadn’t made food seem so enjoyable to us. We have to eat, it controls us.

The apostle Paul points out in the first epistle to the Corinthian Church that God has granted us a tremendous amount of freedom as believers. He says that we can take part in almost anything that we want to, but that not everything we take part in is edifying, or in other words beneficial and ultimately right before God. However, it’s amazing how quickly something that seems so simple, and within our God given freedom, can become such a beast unnoticed.

What controls you? Is there anything in your life that you have allowed to become bigger than it should have become? Is there anything that although designed to be a freedom for you, has become a burden in you?

It’s a question worth asking.