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If You Are Not in Control, You Are Being Controlled
Whatever you can’t control is controlling you. And if you want to win, you must take charge of your life!
Be responsible for everything you experience in life — never blame anybody for your status. If you can’t control your flesh (lustful desires), anger, marriage/relationship, friends, children, possessions, money, work, education — etc. — whatsoever you can name that you find yourself unable to control is actually controlling YOU. This is a statement of fact from my observation.
What has no right over you
However, not everything can be controlled by you at a given point in time, because you are not yet qualified to do so. And here is the deeper truth: so many things that tend to control our behavior have NO RIGHT whatsoever to control us into a mess — except we permit them to take charge over our lives, either in ignorance or by our irresponsibility!
We must learn to identify some of the things that should never have their way in controlling the direction of our lives — such as anger, sex, bad friends, false doctrine, drug abuse/drunkenness, bad habits, lust, etc. — and thereby take absolute responsibility for our well-being and experiences.
The mirror test
If you check your life, you will see what seems difficult to deal with — and that automatically proves that the same thing is dealing with YOU already! What do you think? What is that one thing you keep postponing, excusing, hiding? Name it — for whatever you can name, you can confront!
Seek Truth!
You must come to know that you have every potential needed to take charge of your life and produce positive desired results. But lack of knowledge has been the root of you giving in to such things — things which now control your feelings, actions, and reactions as a result.
Coming into control requires knowledge of the Truth in its factual realities. This Truth is the wisdom that gives you the right principles, which form a law: if you obey it, it gives you the power to be in control of your life’s experience at every point in time.
Seek Truth! Take charge! Win!
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