Personal Revival - Giving up the white hat!

Today is the day I gave up the white hat for good.  What does the white hat symbolize?  It symbolizes leadership.  When I worked with my dad during the summers of college years, the leaders wore white hats.  They were the authority over the orange hats.  The workers wore orange hard hats and that was my situation working with my dad.  I did whatever the white hats wanted me to do.  If I didn't follow the instructions of the white hats, I could've lost my job.  I knew my place and there was comfort in that.  In experiencing personal revival, what hat do you wear in your relationship with God? White or orange?

Unfortunately, I have struggled wearing the white hat in my walk with God.  I have tried to control the areas of my life that I subconsciously felt God couldn't handle.  I did what I wanted to do with money.  I did what I wanted to do with my temptations.  I did what I wanted to do with my family.  God allowed me to wear the white hat but it didn't get me anywhere.  I was more stressed, more impatient and less content.  So I quit.  I gave up the white hat and gave it to the One who can truly handle it.

I Peter 5:5-7 ( http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+5%3A5-7&version=NIV) Peter encourages us to give up the white hat so to speak and humble ourselves under the mighty leadership of God. He will guide and provide for us what we need, when we need it.

Are you wearing the white hat in your relationship with God?  Surrender it today.  Commit to His instructions for living life and find peace, contentment and joy.