Happy Friday,
Faithful Weigher's. I trust you are having a good week, so far,
trusting God for your internal cues. As
we continue to discover the amazing design God created in our bodies, we are
learning about even more of His perfect design in our Bible Study on Hebrews at
PYBC. This week the focus was on
REST! I know...you all don't have to
tell me to "listen to it". As
for you that know me, God has to "slap me upside the head" at times
when there is something He is bringing to my attention. :) He does this by bringing this topic to me in
many different ways. Last night, the dvd
study was so good. This morning, Sarah
Young, the author of "Jesus Calling" must have called up Lisa Harper
and coordinated the exact topic and day that I would be watching the dvd and
reading the devotional! How dare those
two connive on my behalf! :) All kidding aside, this is a serious topic
for most of us. Sarah says in JC this
morning, "I built into your very being the need for rest. How twisted the world has become when people
feel guilty about meeting this basic need." There you have it. Another area of God's perfect design of our
bodies that we easily overlook or ignore the signals it is giving to us. To me, this brings another layer to the
phrase we have been using a lot in this book study. "To listen to our God-given internal
cues." I, for one, need to also
listen to these cues, to rest! However,
as we have learned this week and last that hunger pangs and fullness is subjective,
rest also is. It means different things
to different people. First, I
"rest" when I am in God's Word and writing in my journal in the
morning. This is my "spiritual
rest". It might be a half hour, it
might be 2 hours. I so look forward to
my morning coffee time with my Lord. My
"physical rest" to me is sleeping at night, of course, but
"rest" in the other part of my life is sitting with my hubby or a
friend, chatting about stuff over a cup of coffee. I know..my brain isn't resting...but this is
what I enjoy doing, this is what I lament that I don't have more time to
do. However, as I listen to my internal
cues for hunger, fullness and now tiredness, God is teaching me to rely more
and more on Him and to trust Him more and more in the moments of my day. It is from Him that I will learn His meaning
of these cues for me. I desire that my
cues will be subjective, not to what I perceive but to His will and plan for
me. To bring Him glory with my life. Ya know, I am so grateful that God has
brought me to this time of my life, with all the hardships I have endured.
Without my journey with Him thus far, I would not be where I am, right now,
learning of His amazing design and will for me.
I am excited to be right where I am and to keep walking with my
Lord! Trusting God in more areas of my
life that I didn't realize I had "control" of. Are you praising God today for the journey He
has brought you on? Are you excited for
what He is teaching you right now? Is
your desire to be subjective to God's design and will for you? As I read over the prayer request that we had
this week at our meetings, the underlying need I see is that we trust God in
each of our areas of need. He is worthy
of our trust! Blessings for the weekend,
my sweet Faithful Weigh Friends!
