A Place of Rest

Therefore, strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees, and make straight your paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead. Hebrews 12:12,13

I believe this is such an important passage. So many my age are tired and looking for pleasant looking places where they might lay down and take a rest. Yet there is only one place where it is safe to lie down and take a rest, under my God,s feathers. He is my sanctuary, my shelter, my shield, my sustenance, my rest.

For several weeks now I have known that Saturday is for the Lord. I still clean and mow and wash but do it in Him, mindful of Him. I enjoy our time together, our space, our communion. I am quiet, I listen to good music and messages via podcasts. I have stepped it up a notch and there is no TV Friday or Sarurday night. His presence is invading my world. Week nights I am giving to Him and am seeking Him. Why? Because He is the only liberator, deliverer, fulfilled I know.

Driving to church Sunday morning I knew I had been set free of another piece of wrong thinking. I know He resorts my soul and oh He does.

Friday night I had a burden to pray for a renewal of first love for the church, that all who know Him would go to that place of innocence and refreshment, a new beginning in faith for the people of God.

There is only One who will satisfy the longing in our souls and His name is Jesus.

As a swimmer in dock, having injured myself once again, I am icing knees morning and night and waiting for my body to say, 'ok, ready to go again!' My physiotherapist delivered bad news, I have many broken areas and my body does not respond to 'fast,' it injures me. It responds to 'steady.' I could not have continued as I was in too much pain. So now I am strengthening my weakened knees and shoulders, giving them time to heal and be restored.

I cannot push where there is no life, I cause pain. In my soul: my mind, my will, my emotions, I cannot push; I cannot push God, He is immoveable. Learning to live in rest is important to me. I have had to learn it in business, in relationships with friends and family.

God's rest is best! His ways, His thoughts, His plans are best. Trust Him! Amen!

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