Resting in the LORD: what a lesson to learn!

Precious Believer…If you do not know already - learning this lesson is an ongoing job. We actually never “get there”, we will never receive an “A”, we will always have something in life which “trips us up”.  

Most people do not realize this is actually a good thing. ALL of our reliance should be in the LORD ALL the time. We should never say, “I’ve totally got this.” Instead, we could say, “I am prepared, LORD, please help me do a good job.” Or  “Thank you, LORD, for helping me prepare.”

We are not God’s puppets. He did not “wind us up” to fulfill His plans. He does not “pull our strings” to make us do this or that. As children of God we are His. We live in His grace and mercies, we desire to glorify His Name, we “feed” on His Word to know Him better, and if we do these things we are drawn closer and closer to Him. We then readily do what we can to serve and glorify Him with our lives and so part of that would be resting in Him every day. Trusting Him to hold us, to guide us in our walk with Him, and knowing that He will not let go of us.

So the next time you feel like you are “tumbling out of control”, you do not know what on earth you are doing here, or you feel like a failure in all you do - remember who you are in Christ: 

You are a child of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, SAVED BY HIS MARVELOUS GRACE, You are in His Royal Kingdom.

Romans 8:1-4, 12-15, 18-25, 34-39

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit...

...So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” ...

...For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it...

... Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,

“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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