Stress. This week seems to have had a fair bit of it and once again I’ve been reminded what it means to fully trust that God knows what he’s doing. At the moment, as it has been for much of this year I know quite a few people who are going through some very difficult situations. Some of these people are very close to me and others I’ve heard about on the grapevine. Some of these people are trusting God, yelling at God, crying to God and leaning on God. Some of them are ignoring God and either don’t believe he exists or are outright angry at him and everyone around them. Its so hard to trust when there are circumstances beyond your control, especially if you’re a planner and control freak like me. God seems harder to trust some times, we can’t necessarily see him or audibly hear him and yet he asks us to throw ourselves on him.
At one point this week the stress was so great that I threw my arms up in the air and finally gave it all up to the Lord. Gosh I wish I remembered to do that to start with instead of taking it all onto my own shoulders. I love Jesus’ words in Matthew 11:28;
‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest’
The trouble is that I often come, I stand before him, give him the burden and then snatch it back and run off again. Stupid really. In order to really rest we have to teach ourselves to actually give him the burden for real and not take it back. Being human means that this can be easier said than done, but it must done in order to really rest.
Rest. The other side of stress. Now thats something I’m aiming to gain. I’m so glad that Jesus waits patiently for us to stand before him again and truly hand it all over to him.
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