hungry
this time in my life is marked by a deep hunger, a craving for more intimacy with the Holy Spirit, more authroity and power in my life as a result of that intimacy. but i find that grasping and reaching for it doesn't work. i've tried, but now i realize, all over again, that it will never work. i have to be poised to receive. completely still, getting only what He gives freely.
but i wrestle with this anxiety that attacks my spirit, telling it to be busy. i want to be still, but i am not. i clean my room instead. what am i afraid of? why is it so hard to listen?
but i wrestle with this anxiety that attacks my spirit, telling it to be busy. i want to be still, but i am not. i clean my room instead. what am i afraid of? why is it so hard to listen?
posted by bethany at
4:18 PM
5 Comments:
right on. i feel ya. i find so much rest in Him when i come into His presence yet i insist on avoiding my calling. why? i dont know. i just know that i must keep abiding and trusting that He is gonna work through my disobedience. hang in there. peace, rest, and joy are right there on the other side waiting for you to receive. be blessed knowing those gifts will never change nor go away. so go and be filled! drink from His river!
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Anonymous, At
August 30, 2006
I think there is a difference between being sincerely busy, accomplishing those things that we have been given to do; and there is running business...which could be cleaning your room, unless you are only doing it in order to not have to stop.
The point is, even Christ said, I can do nothing except through the Father, yet too often we try to go it on our own. True abiding is when we can approach whatever we do during our day and be resting in Him. As Brother Lawrence "Practiced the Presence of God" in conversing with Jesus as he washed dishes in the monastery, so too we should make it our goal to walk in step with the Spirit. And yet, be always ready to make yourself accessible to God in quiet moments of stillness.
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Phil, At
September 04, 2006
I've been reading in the Gospel of John lately and haven't been able to get past chapter 6...it might apply here as well - v. 35
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He would comes to me will never go hungry, and he who belives in me will never be thirsty..."
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Phil, At
September 18, 2006
Mmmm... I hear ya girl. I struggle the same way... not just with physically doing something but with making my mind rest! I was thinking that last night when Matt was explaining how a woman's mind works at Encounter-- if only we could turn that off sometimes! I just keep praying I can discern which of all those voices is HIS, speaking truth to my heart... I'm learning to just listen for the sweetest one :)
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ericka b, At
September 30, 2006
Hello, I found this blog by chance (or was it?), as I was struggling with the same restlessness...I guess we'd better relax, maybe our ears are not made to ear certain things... or maybe it's not just the right moment.
Wish you the best
By
neo_scapigliato, At
November 30, 2006
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