Ezekiel shared something really amazing at worship group last night. I thought I might share it on here, because I believe it's going to have a huge impact on my life, and it would be selfish for me to keep that for myself.
We are encouraged to do as much as possible to serve God. We are encouraged to do things whole-heartedly and commit to things whole-heartedly - to put our all into what we do. That is all very amazing ad very good. Our heart must be such that we want to serve, and we should react to that heart by serving.
But this inevitably leads to a busy life. Sometimes, one becomes stressed because of the business that a full life entails.
It is not God's plan for us to be stressed. He does not want us to be stressed. A stressed-out and reluctant servant does not do a very good job and that is not glorifying to God.
When we reach the point of stress, we have a choice to make. We either carry on and become stressed. Or we submit to God's will and resolve that stress. Jesus reached that point of stress at Gethsamane where He sweated blood at the knowledge of what He was undertaking. He even asked that the cup be passed from Him (that He would not have to go to the cross), and had He carried on and become stressed, at the point of His flogging even before the cross, He would not have been to undertake the huge task that the cross entailed. But He did not choose to carry on, but He succumbed to God's will and not His own. Thus He resolved that stress. And He went on to die and rise again! .
When we reach that point of stress, we must realise that we can choose to submit to God's will, let His grace envelop us and in doing so resolve the stress and carry on. Personally I think that is absolutely AMAZING!
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That's excellent Ee-Reh - so true! We can often allow things to get too much for us when we take our eyes off Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith. Jesus died to remove all our burdens and now we have the choice to make decisions to live in the freedom He gives us.
That's great Ee-Reh, as we dwell in his presence we will know the power and reality of what Jesus said in Matthew 11:29 'Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you' (Message Translation)
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