Christ is King!

        Some of you might be reading the title and saying "Duh, of course He is King!" but that saying hit me hard last night at church while the sermon was going on. The preacher would just keep saying it and I would keep hearing it but that would be the only thing I hear that kept touching me in a different way. I have been going through a lot of ideas and options for my life and just thinking a lot. I would hear one thing there that I wanted to do and then another thing from over there. I have been going through what I call little storms lately too.
         I was home last weekend and went to my parents' church and the preacher talked about storms of life that we go through and how we need to step out on faith. Strangely enough, I come back to AR and go to church and the sermon is the same but they add an important truth that during all this Christ is King and He is in control. The two sermons went together but they were from two different churches. Amazing how God works, huh? It is strange too because all of these things I'm going through seem like small things. I mean I have been in worse storms then this where I could of used the stories of the Peter walking on water or the man laying on the mat because he couldn't walk and people helping them get to Jesus but God chose to show me those stories now.
          Work is stressful some days even been more with this snow but I love it. I have these ideas and made up options that could happen at work but is not happening right now. I have these options with friends that I would love to help with but can't because it is something I would have to commit my life to. I got all these little storms or ideas in my head yet nothing is happening but I feel like I can't do any of these things on my own like God would have to make a way, show me a way, to go about it.
           The phase "Christ is King" is a great reminder that Christ is in charge of and in control of everything in our lives and He knows what is best for us. I love what my preacher said last night. He gave us three words or actions, is a better way to look at them, to do and they were: BELIEVE, TRUST, AND CONFIDENCE. A lot of times we, as Christians, do believe and have the trust that we should in God but do we have the confidence to go do what God is telling us to do. Do we have that confidence to step out in faith and let Him have control? I know I will be praying a lot more for the confidence that I need to do whatever God wants me to do in my life.
            It is so neat to have people in my life where I see what God has done for them and is doing for them. I either want to be a part of that or I want it to happen in my life but I know they didn't just get there by luck. They were blessed and lead my God. They put their trust in Him and gave it all they got and God did the rest. The part that they could not do.
             I look at it as a 3 step process: I have believed and seen what God can do.
I'm working on the trusting Him part right now and I feel like where I need to be for the next step in my life on the trusting.
Now it's time to do the hardest one for me and that is to have CONFIDENCE and go get what I know God wants me to have and do. CONFIDENCE in know that CHRIST is MY KING and that He is in CONTROL of my LIFE.
              Do you have the belief, trust, and confidence to do what God has called you to do? I know I don't but I am working on it everyday and growing closer to Christ because of it.