“After that second of peace was interrupted by an airbag burning my hand and my clothes and smoke filled the vehicle, and I couldn’t get out the car because it’s an electric car and I was locked in, so I had to find a way to climb out,” he said, “it was filled with a bit of anxiety, a little bit of panic.”
But, he shared, “before that moment, there was a peace that overtook my soul that was predicated upon one simple thing: My life was completely at the mercy of the will of God for me in that moment.”
“Whether I live, whether I die, whether I sink or I swim, it was so outside of my hands that there was no debating or negotiating,” KB added. “And because of the presence of our God, I was okay with it.”
As KB reflected on the Lord sparing his life and the peace he experienced, he asked himself, “At what moment is my life not completely at the mercy of the will of God for me? When am I free to take the reins?”
KB continued:
In fact, is not the source of most of my anxiety, discouragement, uncertainty, is not the source of it largely when I am trying to hold the reins as tight as I can? When I’m trying to control the outcome. I’m not talking about the first second being unnecessary. God calls us to strive in this world. God calls you to do your best and trust him with the rest. That’s the recipe. But isn’t most of our issues in this life when we say, “Oh God, I got it from here. I know what I’m doing.” And it’s my worrying, staying up late at night, my trying to push forward things that I think depend on me, isn’t that the source of all of your dysregulation?
“I felt like God gave me in that moment a gift for my life, where the Scripture was illuminated to me in new ways,” KB said. “When the Scripture says to cast your cares on him, because he cares for you. Or unless the Lord builds the house, the laborers labor in vain. That the king has all kind of plans in his heart, but God is the one that determines the outcome.”
“Wait on the Lord; he will renew your strength,” he added.
KB emphasized that “waiting makes you strong, not controlling.” He said, “I don’t need control. I need peace. And that moment showed me that if I have peace, I am happy to give God the control and that is what all of life is.”
KB begins “The Signal Tour” with Terrian and Trip Lee this Thursday in Cincinnati.
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