Who's driving your boat?

On our Christmas day outing, it was little Captain Daniel. He sure got a kick out of driving the boat. What he really liked was pressing the accelerator. Where would he get that from? For those of you who know how I drive, he surely didn't get it from me!
But in all seriousness, what an important question that is. Who is driving your boat? Who is calling the shots in your life? Not because I am the one that has posed it, that's for sure. But I just as you need to make sure that the One who is on the throne is the One that is calling the shots. That He is the One driving the boat. I remember some time back when I had this awesome (well, I guess you could say terrible) 1980 Dodge Ram Van (and it wasn't in the year 1980 that I owned it) that blared its horn at every right turn. Probably the best thing about the van was the bumper sticker. It read, "If God is your co-pilot, you had better change seats." So many times in our lives we want to be the ones who call the shots. We want to be the ones who make the decisions. How important it is for us, rather to submit ourselves to the Lord and long to see His will done and not our own. As I read the Word of God, it is more and more evident to me that the Lord is sovereign over all His creation. Even when man thinks that he is in control, even when he thinks that he can make things happen as he wants, he is essentially incorrect. Reflecting on the sovereignty of God as displayed in the Scriptures, we can see that the Lord ultimately will see that His will is done. The question is will we be voluntarily submitting ourselves to Him and what He would have for us. We would be majorly foolish to think that we should be, or that we are the ones driving the boat. How much better it is when we submit ourselves to the Lord and His will for our lives. Would it not be better for us to do this and receive the Lord's blessing than to resist the Lord's will and lose the rewards reserved for His children?
How much we need to reflect on the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. The passage in Philippians 2:5-11 speaks beautifully to His humbling of Himself while here on the earth. Thinking about His birth as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and the Apostle John's words about the Savior taking on flesh and dwelling amongst His creation. Colossians 1 talks about this Jesus as the Creator of all things. Hebrews 12:1-2 tells us that although He humbled himself and suffered, that He is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. To think of the Savior's submission to His Father needs to be a sobering thought for us all. We read in Matthew 26 as Jesus is praying in the garden of Gethsamane, two times Jesus says to His Father, "not My will, but Your will be done." May we have the same attitude. May we not seek our own, but may we seek what the Lord has for us. (Matthew 6:33)
Whatever our venture may be, may it be with the desire to give God the glory that He alone deserves! For that reason we were made! For that reason we are still here on this planet. May we be as jealous for the Lord's glory as He is for His glory. (Psalm 115:1)
Maybe it is time for us to take our hands off the wheel. Maybe it is time for us to move back in the boat and let Him do the driving. Time to say, "Lord, not my will, but may Yours be done."