How many of you have heard the term control freak?

I know we joke about the reality of a control freak, but most control freaks actually are unaware that they are.

Most important thing that I want to tell you is this.

Be careful of confusing those who have the spirit of

control with those who are diligent workers. We often confuse the two because there's a world

of difference with someone who is actually a control freak and someone

who has just been diligent and conscientious and lives up to their responsibility and they're

faithful in their life and in their service. I want to explain the difference between the two,

the difference between diligence and controlling.

Living up to your responsibility means that you are diligent, that you redeem the time, that you are faithful in meeting your obligations.

And that cuts across the board, whether as a parent or whether it is in ministry or it's in your

profession or it's just being a faithful husband and wife.

All of our responsibilities in life, we are to be diligent, to be thoughtful, to be hardworking,

and to be responsible. That's hardworking, and to be responsible.

That's very different, very different from being controlling.

Controlling often comes from a severe case of insecurity, which is, comes out of anxiety.

Controlling is out of a desire to take credit for everything.

Controlling comes out of being more concern about image and reputation than with reality.

Furthermore, controlling people work over time to manipulate others and to manipulate situations and to

manipulate circumstances to make them go their way.

Controlling people often try to engineer situations to their advantage.

Controlling people convince themselves that the world is going

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