COME TO ME AND REST IN My sufficiency. Stop trying to fix yourself by focusing on your failures. Remember that the world you inhabit is fallen, and you are part of that brokenness. You can no more practice My Presence perfectly than you can save yourself from your sins. In a fallen world, all your default settings are tainted by sin. Nonetheless, you are being transformed and renewed by My Spirit within you.
Collaborate with Me as I work to set you free from hurtful ways. View each moment as a fresh opportunity to draw near Me. I welcome you with open arms.
- Jesus
Dear Jesus: You know how we long to practice Your Presence more consistently. When we keep our focus on You, our whole perspective is brighter, more joyful. When we are preoccupied with problems, we feel weighed down and anxious. Yet the default setting of our minds seems to be problem solving. Our thoughts tend to flow toward finding what is wrong and trying to fix it. We want to break free from this hurtful pattern, but its roots go deep into our being.
(Dear Jesus / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Matthew 11:28; Romans 12:2 and Psalm 119:23-24
"Come to Me, all you are weary and burdened; and I will give you rest"
ReplyDelete(Matthew 11:28 / New International Version)
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will"
(Romans 12:2 / New International Version)
"Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way" (Psalm 119:23-24 / New International Version)