Beholding and Becoming #14-15 Rest Is Productive

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While visiting a local nursery I saw this creation among the gourds and exclaimed to the proprietor, this looks like an apple!  She quietly said, "Yes. It's an apple gourd."  Well, that makes sense.

It now sits near our front door on a garden bench between a couple chairs.  Sometimes I sit in this spot and quiet myself before the Lord when waiting for my husband or guests to arrive.

Rest Is Productive

Most of my life I've been in Martha mode, doing, doing, doing.  Having a stroke greatly diminished that lifestyle and I can now see what Mary saw. Read all of Luke 10:38-42, but mediate on 

"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion,  which will not be taken away from her."

The Chapter 15 challenge in Beholding and Becoming is a really healthy one.

Schedule rest

Close your computer

Have blank space on the calendar

Prioritize heart over hustle

Sit still

Simons states that "In our task mindedness, we forget that rest-ceasing from work and being still before the Lord-is not a luxury: rest is productive."

"Rest is where we remember that He is God and we are not.

Rest is where we remember that He holds all things together without our help.

Rest is where we remember that God created the time restraints and limitations we rebel against.

Rest is where we remember that He is at work in us, even in the waiting.

We might think that we can't afford to take time for rest, but really, we can't afford not to."

Better is one day in your courts the a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.  Psalm 84:10


The Songs

"Be Still My Soul" by Selah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPDPUoxylP4

"Better Is One Day" Matt Redman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Fj9bbEmVk


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