We are often doing and giving in order to
get. This is not functioning from a love
motivation. It is a business transaction. It depletes us. The wounds of the past, the neediness that we
have, set us up to pursue significance, status, recognition, affirmation, etc.
by what we do. This is so much work! It is serving a false god.
God doesn't want you to continue in your idolatry,
placating a god who uses you up and leaves you broken and wounded. The work of
grace on the heart needs to woo you back into relationship with Him.
He asks you to come apart for a while, find rest in
him, and enter into the honeymoon of abiding. He loves you and delivers you
because He delights in you. Anything or
anyone that has the potential for being a god in our life He will battle. These battles usually include God letting us
fall into the pit of our own pursuing.
When we are all used up, when our expectations are not met, when others
have let us down and we are broken, weeping, angry, and grieved, God is doing
battle for us.
He is trying to get us to see the truth of our
wounds. He wants to move us from service
that depletes to service that restores.
Remember the story in the Bible about Jesus and the woman at the
well. When He started talking with her,
He was hungry. The disciples had gone to
get food. After His ministry to her, the
disciples came with food. He said He was
not hungry..that He had had meat of which they knew not.
There is a huge lesson for us in that story. We would do well to spend some down time with
God and pursue our own personal truth from this lesson.
A Kingdom principle is: Seek ye first the work of
grace on your heart, and everything else can be trusted to Him. He will order
our days.
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