In the past years at college, I have come to recognize what it looks like when I'm in control v. when God is in control... and the way I am molded depends on who is in control.
So here is some insight to what I've learned:
With God.
Things look different. I am a positive, hopeful, patient, unyielding, humble, peaceful, unworried, stress free, content, trusting, nonjudgmental, open, and free college student.
Things look normal. I am a hesitant, overbearing, excuse ridden, sarcastic, ignorant, apathetic, compromising, trapped, distant, impatient, stressed, arrogant, and unhappy college student.
Without God.
“I have told you these things so that in me you may have PEACE. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33 (NIV)
So be ENCOURAGED! and aware of whether or not you or God is in control. For isn't life lived so much better when God is in control and not us?