Lincoln Brewster Kari Jobe Whom Shall I Fear

Our Heart Has Found its Rest in Him!

    Until we find our rest in God we will never really fully worship Him. When Jesus called out in Matthew 11:28, "Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." he wasn't telling us we had to come and work!
    Worship and work are at complete opposite ends of the experience that God has for us. God's original plan was for six days of work then a day of rest. God rested when He finished His work and then He gave that day a special blessing.

    As long as we are working, trying to earn our way to acceptance we will not at all be able to understand and experience God's rest. There is a calm that comes after Jesus has quieted our storm. All around us our own ideas, desires and demands are rising up like a tidal wave that are continually working to sink our boat. Jesus is still with us but when we are working as hard as we can, we are bound by fear. It is as if we forget who told us to start this journey to begin with! If we could just try a little harder, row a little faster, bale the water out a it more efficiently, then we think we would get where we were supposed to be going. But Jesus and all His power is sleeping in our boat, unasked and unnoticed!

    How God's heart longs and waits for us to come and cry out to him, in faith, not fear. He is ready to show himself. Jesus has neither forgotten us nor our storms, yet we feel as if we are alone, He will not come until we ask. He cannot calm the storm and give us rest unless we give up and give it all to Him.
    We have such a hard time because it seems like we just have to do something. But resting is not doing nothing, it is a choice in which we say, "God I trust you completely, come and be Lord here and now in my life." Then He comes. He commands the storm and there is a great calm! Then we see Jesus alive and in control again. Then we worship because our heart has found its rest in Him!

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Hidden with Christ

This past week I was thinking over the idea of how God chooses to hide his people at various times and in different ways. Though we may often think of hiding as an act of cowardice, the Bible would not agree. In 1 Kings 17 it is astonishing to discover that the powerful prophet Elijah (best known for calling down fire from heaven) was told to go into hiding. God hid him by the brook and fed him by the ravens. It is not that God needs to conceal us, but that He wants to keep us in a quiet place until His time is right.
Looking back to the life of Moses we find that his parents hid him and when they could no longer keep him secret, Pharaoh's daughter found him and kept him safe. John the Baptist (Not known as a shrinking Violet) was kept hidden in the desert until his revealing to Israel. Even Jesus Christ himself was kept hidden in Egypt by his parents for some years until King Herod was dead. So what does all that have to do with our lives? Paul explains to us in his letter to the church at Colossae that as Christians God has also hidden us.

Col 3:3 For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

But why does God hide us? Maybe it is because of our internal GPS system. In our old lives we had certain destinations programed into us. We focused our energies and set our goals on earthly targets trying to hit the bull's eye. Even now as Christians we so easily start down the road towards those old places and familiar sights and sounds. Unless we see Jesus' goals we will keep going to wrong way. That is because sometimes God's true goals are hidden.
So in Christ, God reprograms the GPS system of our spirits. The old GPS will not be able to acquire our global position because we are hidden with Christ in God. As we begin the journey now with our new faith vision, God's satellite system (the Bible)  points out exactly where we are. God's GPS acquires our location, then begins step by step to call out when to turn, and when to keep going straight. As long as we continue walking in faith, the new system will work perfectly. We can see the old goals are really empty promises and the applause we hoped to get for temporary accomplishments has no satisfaction. As we remain faithful, God gives us His next amazing promise:

Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life appears, then will we also appear with Him in glory!

So maybe now is God's time for you to remain quiet. He has put us in a hiding place for his own purposes and will bring out out in His own time. Elijah remained invisible to King Ahab for 3 1/2 years. John the Baptist remained in the desert till the beginning of his ministry. Jesus himself was unknown to anyone except his mother and Joseph until he was baptized by John. God also has a perfect time and place for each chapter of our lives. There is no braver thing to do than to trust God, allow Him to hide us in Christ, and wait for Him to do what He wants in His perfect time!

Carry Your Name - Christy Nockels

What the world calls weeds - God calls flowers!

Matthew 6:30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, He will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?


One Summer many years ago I remember sitting high atop the hay wagon, as we slowly headed back to the barn with one more load of hay. I took full advantage of that small moment of rest and took in all the sights and smells of the freshly cut field. I remember looking down into the hay where I could see an amazing assortment of wildflowers of every imaginable shape and color. There they were, nestled in among the remnants of the fresh-mown hay showing off their amazing array of beauty. That scene has always come back to me when I think of how richly God lavishes His artistry on the simplest things. All around us in our daily life God leaves behind reflections of His grace.

Try to imagine, that this same God who has taken such care in each detail of a single wild flower, has also crafted you and I with His own fingers. It often may seem that no one could possibly value anything about us. The world may be passing us by looking down and insted of seeing wild flowers, they see only weeds. Weeds are those plants that grow where no one wants them or where no one has planned. Maybe we ourselves pass people every day and never notice a single thing of beauty. But all around the world God's wildflowers are on display to remind us that He is intimately involved in every life and thzat every life has value.

What makes our lives different from the flowers of the field is their joyful abandonment. They are not at all concerned that their time here is short, or are they worried what others may think. In the brief hours that God has given them they simply give away all that they have. They are completely at peace knowing that the same hand that crafted them will care for them and keep them for ever. Why is it that the flowers understand this and we struggle to believe? Jesus told us to see the wild-flowers and know that God values us far more than them...