Control Issues

 

Control Issues

Comments on Galatians with an ear to Luther’s commentary

Scripture Text: Galatians 3:4 and Matthew 6:9-13

Series: Comments on Galatians

Today's Scripture Jigsaw

“Watch out!” cried the person on the other side of the car. “You should have turned left back there.” You know this kind of passenger, who wherever they sit, are labeled backseat drivers. “Slow down!” Usually, they are not better drivers; some of them do not drive at all.  Maybe the backseat driver has control issues. 

Some in the church have control issues. They think they need a little of God’s grace for “driving the car” but that it must be steered to its destination by their control and direction. They just need to be more careful, slow down, speed up, or turn at one street instead of another. Their belief — and it is their central belief — is that their choices and their good works are what make the crucial difference in life. 

Nothing is further from the truth and nothing is more presumptuous. When we think we have enough will power and religion to deal with sin, we are actually saying that we do not need God at all. We will have gone from having control issues to being persons with god complexes. 

And if we look in the other seat, we will discover no one is actually driving the car at all. 

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