Rick Warren's Daily DevotionalSample

Make Healing Choices The Bible teaches that our biggest struggle in life is with God because we want to be in control. We want to be God. This was the problem Jacob had; he insisted he be able to control his life to such an extent that he wanted to change the order of his birth! One night he even tried to go one-on-one with God. Some people want to debate who Jacob actually wrestled but the Bible tells us in Hosea: "Even in the womb, Jacob struggled with his brother; when he became a man, he even fought with God." (Hosea 12:3 NLT) Think of your problem right now. Regardless of what that problem is, I suspect it all boils down to these two issues. Will you trust God and obey? Will you not trust God and, instead, disobey? No matter what your problem is - financial, physical, relational, social, and vocational -- your biggest problem is not the problem you think. The real problem is not obeying and trusting God. And that makes the problem bigger. Have you ever been in a no-win situation? Perhaps you're in a no-win situation right now. Who do you think is behind that? God is! God backs you into a corner. Why? Because God often allows crisis in our lives in order to get our attention. All of a sudden we're laid flat on our backs and we're forced to look up.