God is in Control

Have you ever told anyone, "God is in control?"  It is supposed to be comforting, but sometimes it is just something we say to make someone feel better.  There is nothing wrong with being empathetic, but we also need to take those words seriously.  Life can take a quick turn with one phone call: cancer, car accident, or killed in action.  Find peace in the truth of those words: "God is in control."  When you realize you cannot change the circumstances, and you have nothing else to do but lean on God, then you can have the emotional strength to hold others up when all hell breaks lose.  The enemy may hammer us relentlessly, but as one author once said, "The anvil outlasts the hammer."  God will shape us on the anvil, and it may hurt, but he is creating us to be all he meant for us to be, and no matter how much it hurts, he always knows what he is doing.