{"id":4899,"date":"2023-10-15T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/2023\/10\/15\/trust-or-control\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:23:32","slug":"trust-or-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/15\/trust-or-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust or Control."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From today&#8217;s devotion&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem, however, is that trust and control do not coexist. You can have control or you can have trust, but you can\u2019t have both. This presents a challenge considering that throughout scripture, God&#8217;s instruction to us is to trust Him. In fact, we often see that God&#8217;s guidance does not include the final picture nor are all the details known.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/wp-content\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-528x297.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file-860x484.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following God surrendering control to Him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With long life He will satisfy me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s devotion&#8230; The problem, however, is that trust and control do not coexist. You can have control or you can have trust, but you can\u2019t have both. This presents a challenge considering that throughout scripture, God&#8217;s instruction to us is to trust Him. In fact, we often see that God&#8217;s guidance does not include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[425,220,218,357],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resonate","tag-control","tag-devotions","tag-faith","tag-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3f1ef5c7-5ef1-4637-ae19-70c948830989-3295-0000040ab2226b90_file.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}