You don't have a God problem. You have a steering wheel problem.
Most believers I know genuinely love God. They pray, they tithe, they show up on Sunday. But there's this one thing nobody wants to say out loud: we want His blessing on the life we already planned. We want Him to sign off on what we already decided. We bring Him into the picture after the picture is already framed.
That's not faith. That's management.
Here's the thing about control. It doesn't look like rebellion. It looks like planning. It looks like being responsible. It sounds like "I need to think this through" when God already told you to move. It sounds like "let me get my ducks in a row first" when the obedience He's asking for doesn't fit your timeline.
Control is the most spiritual-looking sin you will ever carry.
And the reason we hold onto it is because we've been burned. Or we're afraid of what He'll ask next. Or we don't actually believe He is as good as we say He is on Sunday morning. Come on. That's the honest version.
But here's the problem with holding the wheel. You're too close. You can only see what's right in front of you. The lane you're in, the speed you feel comfortable at, the exit you already mapped out. God sees the whole highway and He sees what's coming around the corner you can't see yet. When you're gripping that wheel, you don't get His route. You get yours.
And your route has limits He doesn't have.
This is what dying to yourself actually means. Not dying to your bad habits. Not dying to your laziness. Dying to the version of you that would rather steer a smaller life than surrender the wheel on a bigger one.
He doesn't want your productivity. He doesn't want your five-year plan presented to Him for approval. He wants your hands off the thing you keep insisting you need to hold.
Obedience is not a formula. It doesn't give you a guarantee that what you give up comes back better. Sometimes it doesn't come back at all. Sometimes what He puts in front of you looks smaller than what you let go and you have to trust that He knows what He's doing. That's where most people stop. That's the exact moment most people take the wheel back.
My friend, God is not a co-pilot you brought in to cover your blind spots. He's the Lord. That word means something. If He's Lord, you're not. It's not both. It never was.
The blessing isn't withheld because you're unworthy. It's waiting because you won't let go.
Drop the wheel.
@veggiemayo@joeroganhq The Dead Sea library held Torah scrolls too, and they line up with the Masoretic text Jews read today. Same God, same preserved word, Old and New.
@JacobYacub@joeroganhq Fair question. We don't have the originals for ANY ancient text. Homer's gap is way bigger and nobody blinks. The Isaiah scroll matters because it proves 1,000 years of copying didn't corrupt it. It's about faithful transmission, not just age.
@RonHurlburt3@joeroganhq This is exactly why I love that story. God uses a buried scroll to bring a man home. Welcome to the family, brother. He was after you the whole time.
Nobody here is defending a man who beats his kid in anger. If it's malice, you're dead right, that's not a father, that's a coward. But there's a world of difference between rage and loving correction. One is the dad venting. The other actually wants the boy to grow up. Don't collapse the two. Real kids need the second one.
Happy Father's Day.
The best fathers were never chasing perfect. They're chasing Christ.
Patient when it's hard. Quick to forgive. Laying their life down for their family and not keeping score.
To every father reading this, God sees the quiet, faithful work nobody claps for. Keep showing up. 🙏
@joeroganhq Everybody wants the old America back. Nobody wants the old altar back. You don't get the fruit of a God-fearing nation after you evict the God. The road home was never left or right. It's repentance.
@MarioNawfal People will jump into actual sewage to cool the body for ten minutes and walk right past living water that would settle the soul forever. We're not lacking thirst. We're just drinking from the wrong river.
@MarioNawfal This is exactly why God hands kids to fathers and not to the culture. If you won't disciple your children, the world already has a curriculum ready, and it is not neutral. Guard their hearts. That's the assignment.
@elonmusk You know what actually makes a dad cool to his kids? Not the stuff. Presence. Being there, being steady, being safe to come home to. Show up this Father's Day. That's the whole job, and it outlasts everything else you'll buy them.
@MarioNawfal Built an entire identity on raw strength and it still couldn't hold the man together. Muscle was never the problem. The inside was. No amount of strong fixes a heart with no King on the throne.
@AlexHormozi This is the whole Christian life in one line. You don't have the freedom God promised because you won't say no to the chains you've gotten comfortable in. Obedience is just saying no to the lesser thing.