"In repentance and rest is your salvation
in quietness and trust is your strength..."
Isaiah 30:15
I have discovered how, daily, my initial impulses are always contrary to this truth.
So often I want to keep DOING and doing until I collapse in fatigue.
The Lord speaks to my restless heart and reminds me I find my strength
and salvation in
rest and quietness
In this last week of craziness before I fly to Atlanta for pre-field training, I am learning how to rest and abide in Jesus.
How immersed can I be in his presence?
How radical am I willing to be to experience more Jesus and less of me?
Though in his kindness he rescued me from the lies I believed, there are still times I struggle to communicate with the Lord.
It is as if I have a subconscious belief that I need to have it all together before I talk to God. He gently reminds me to come to him often.
Not just once a day during my quiet time.
All day.
Every day.
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know," the Lord says to Jeremiah in chapter thirty-three.
He does this for me.
I cannot count the number of times a thought has popped into my mind that I surely would not have thought on my own. He has a way of teaching me truth and challenging me when I abide in him. Sometimes it is through other people, his Word, his creation or in prayer.
When I abide in him, he also abides in me. How beautiful!
I pray for all believers - that we may live in intimate fellowship with the Lord, abiding in him.
Grace and peace be with you!
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