What are you aware of on your journey through life? This is something that continually challenges me as I walk with my Dad through these crazy days. It seems to me we have one of two choices. Are we more aware of ourselves or more aware of our Father? Circumstances dictate many times where our focus will shift. We would all like to say that we have fixed our eyes on the Father and we never waver from that but the journey isn't that easy.
"Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all. Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness tremendously. Jesus says, "Come to Me … and I will give you rest," that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness. Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest—the rest of the completion of activity in our lives that is never aware of itself. " -Oswald Chambers
What do you see on your journey today? We are urged in the Word to "fix our eyes...". What are your eyes fixed on today? We fix our eyes too easily on our bank accounts, our health, our children, our job situation, our friends and on and on it could go! We are urged to fix our eyes on NOT what is seen, but what is unseen. What is seen is temporary and what is not seen is eternal! Faith can't function if it sees it in the natural. As we know, faith is the evidence of things unseen! (II Cor. 4:18) There is another dimension to walk in while in this world, HIS DIMENSION! Challenge yourself to rest in your Dad. It isn't the accepted practice even among most believers. Make a choice to take your eyes off yourself and put them on your Father!
"...and I will give you rest" Matthew 11:28
4 comments:
wow, sometimes we forget the most obvious things! thanks for the reminder ;)
Welcome to the blogosphere Tom! Great to see you online!
Might I suggest that you use white or yellow text in your posts? The black with blue and red is hard to read for my 'old' 'Methodist' eyes!
Love to Cindy!
Dion
Great job.the text is hard to see but the content is awesome. Keeping it flowing
I couldn't agree more and lately Dad has been captivating me daily. I'm in awe as well as disbelief of the state and time we live in. As christians we are so unaware of what He is doing right now. I find myself weeping daily for this very reason. We need to wake up and be standing at the door, waiting for our Master's return. It breaks heart...
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