November 19th, 2018 Morning Musing:
How do you have peace & rest in your soul when you feel the weight
of many burdens, many cares of this life?
Burdens that bind you in stress & anxiety & fear & doubts, in haste:
Keep Christ as your first love, look to Him, talk with Him, acknowledge Him in all your ways, keep His WORD in your thoughts, let His words protect you, correct you, direct you, break you, heal you, comfort you. Surrender your understanding,
your sense of control, your will, your fears, your doubts, your stress,
your anxiety, your haste,
let go & let God give you rest.
When He matters more than any earthly matter, when being near to Him means
more to you than anything else; when it means more than what you may lose to
gain him---what you lose doesn't really matter if you have His peace &
rest in your soul.
He is all we really need.
The only control you have is over your own thoughts and actions.
STOP everything...
And seek His face & His grace...
To cultivate His peace & rest...to walk in it, even when all around you demands your
care & your
concern.
Stay focused on the Big Picture...God's plan for your life isn't to let you die under the cares & burdens of this life. But He will let
those cares
& burdens bring us to our knees, He will give us the opportunity to turn to Him, to
surrender to Him, to have hope in His mercy, to pray & see His power to intervene.
These struggles we face are meant to perfect that which is lacking in us, to mold
us into the image of Christ.
Are we seeing The Big Picture?
Are we allowing life's difficulties to mold us into the nature of Christ?
Or are we responding in the flesh: Fearful, doubtful, anxious, stressed out?
Lay it ALL DOWN.
PICK UP THE CROSS. DIE TO SELF AND REJOICE IN THE SPIRIT & GRACE
OF CHRIST.
We don't have to respond in the flesh...if we watch and pray & hold fast to the
peace He offers we can be as Him in this present evil world!
John 14:27
"[27]Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy; yo no os la doy como el mundo la da. No se turbe
vuestro corazón, ni tenga miedo.
