Micromanaging Our Way into the Future

Why is it that we (maybe just me?) react so strongly to being told what to do, when to do it, and how it should be done? When you really think about it, doesn't the very fact that someone else is making decisions for us relieve stress and responsibility for failure and allow us to just ‘go with the flow?’ Is there someone else that knows better than me? It makes me think that I am not as humble as I imagine. I find within me a desire to control, to invent, and to create. Self-determination is really what I mean. How does this affect my relationship with my creator? Is God a micro-manager? After all I think he is completely sovereign, therefore he must have control of even the smallest of details in order to accomplish his plans. The converse to this is that his sovereignty is dependent upon mans free will. Maybe I am straying a little far from the subject of why I don’t like to be micro-managed. Pride I guess. After all, my ideas and plans are usually better than any one else’s. Right? Isn’t invention and creation a good thing for us; in fact are these the very things God instills in us, a very part of the image of himself? Where is the balance? These thoughts stem from an instance I recently found myself in where I wanted to punch my supervisor (not a very godly reaction) because he was micro-managing the hell out of me. He was concerned that I had used the wrong form, actually it wasn’t really wrong just not the best form, and wanted me to redo the paper work so it was on the correct color coded form even though the accounting office knew what I needed and the details of what account to charge the items to, etc. Then he finished with flair and added ‘just let me see the forms before you turn them in.’ In my mind my arm was swinging towards his nose. Anyway, I know I don’t like to be controlled except I have always claimed to submit to God. There is some sort of tension here that I will have to reconcile at some point.

Sorry for the complete rambling nature of this post – more of a catharsis than anything else.