Category: Trust

We must learn to recognize the things that rob us of rest.

As God began teaching me more about returning and resting in Him, He began to reveal to me more about the rest-robbers in my life and how to release them. He started shining a light on the Ps in my heart—things stealing my rest and trust in Him.

An old saying that dates to the Middle Ages identifies three significant obstacles to our resting in relationship with Christ: “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” The Bible affirms all three. It teaches we live in a fallen, broken world. We are born with a sin nature longing to put us instead of God on the throne of our lives. We also have an enemy who seeks to destroy our relationship with God. 

Sometimes we get sucked down into discouragement because we simply cannot manage to lift our eyes see anything other than the problem or challenge in front of us. Have you ever felt like this? Stuck? How about stuck and nervous?
I’ve been known to spend time there. 

On paper the first full week of February looked very busy. My calendar held a number of meetings and appointments plus two day-long commitments bookending the week. 

There isn’t a “best time” for everything. Sometimes there is just “now, do the thing.”

I have been a slave much of my life to waiting for optimum timing, or waiting to have more information, or waiting to be able to control things better.