Saturday, July 12, 2008

Rest, Prepare, Live.

As I sat in my "quiet time" today, I was asking God to start showing me new things. I have been in neutral it feels for a couple of days now, and I don't like that! I was just really ready for some action, learning, and fun. But as I kept asking, slowly I realized something.


A lot is going to start happening as we start to get closer to school starting back up, I can already tell. And I feel like the beginning of the summer the Lord just dumped all this knowledge on a lot of people, and now we are supposed to not only retain that knowledge, but rest. It's kind of that awkward point in time before you go out to "war" or whatever you would want to call it. You've learned about all these things, have the tools to fight (or experience), and you're just SO ready to use them. But this is a resting time, before the battle (or life) happens.


So here are the 3 points I'm trying to make:

1. Do not get anxious for what the Lord will bring you.


"Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord!" Psalm 27:14

2. Rest in a preparing fashion. Do not rest and get lazy, but rest and RETAIN the knowledge He has given you.

Luke 22:46
"Why are you sleeping?" he asked them. "Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation."

3.Don't worry, live. Wait for the Lord, and just be patient, but don't stop your life. You never know what small lessons He may bring you still.

Matthew 6:34 (The Message)
34"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes."

2 comments:

Jordan Garrett said...

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YYY said...

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