A four letter word
So often worn as a badge of honor. "Look at all that I am doing. You're only doing that much? You should pick it up, weakling."
We kill ourselves and then cry out when we are burned out with no peace in our hearts. We don't like being so crazy but we just can't stop. So I have to ask the question?
We kill ourselves and then cry out when we are burned out with no peace in our hearts. We don't like being so crazy but we just can't stop. So I have to ask the question?
What the hell is everyone running from?
Ourselves. Jesus.
When we stop, there is so much chaos inside, we freak out for any chance to get busy again. We crave the solitude but then are not sure how to handle all the noise that arises when we stop going and going. It isn't the peace we imagined, so we jump back into the fray not really rested, but not knowing if non-circumstantial peace is even possible.
For this edition of Five Minute Friday, I wrote how we have to be intentional about connecting with people even though with how easy technology makes it to be connected to people near or on the other side of the globe.
And as I continued to ponder the idea.
The Holy Spirit dwells in us. How much easier can it get to connect with God?
And yet it takes such intentionality to actually connect and commune with with God.
I don't know if that thought strikes you like it just did me.
To get to that quiet place, I first have let the inner chaos out. To let God at what has crowded into the place where connecting with Him is like breathing in and out. But I make the choice. Yes, God made it so easy, but I have to choose to open my mouth and communicate and connect with God.
For this edition of Five Minute Friday, I wrote how we have to be intentional about connecting with people even though with how easy technology makes it to be connected to people near or on the other side of the globe.
And as I continued to ponder the idea.
The Holy Spirit dwells in us. How much easier can it get to connect with God?
And yet it takes such intentionality to actually connect and commune with with God.
I don't know if that thought strikes you like it just did me.
To get to that quiet place, I first have let the inner chaos out. To let God at what has crowded into the place where connecting with Him is like breathing in and out. But I make the choice. Yes, God made it so easy, but I have to choose to open my mouth and communicate and connect with God.
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
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