Your Custom Text Here
What if there were two things that would make you whole and healthy, free as a bird and deeply delighted?
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength. . . . Love your neighbor as yourself.” Mark 12:30-31
Father, please teach me to love today.
If you choose to memorize good things, little by little and line by line, you will soon have good treasures stored up in your heart for a rainy day (yours or somebody else’s).
“The good man brings good things out of the good treasures stored up in his heart. . . .” Matthew 12:35
Father, it is so easy to be passive about what fills my heart. Please encourage me today to be diligent instead. From Proverbs 4:23
No matter how sure you are that somebody (real or imagined) is everything you want and everything you need, she isn’t. That is very good and freeing news, once you get used to it.
“Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.” John Wesley
“In Your presence is an abundance of completely satisfying joy and gladness.” Psalm 16:11
Imagine not having to perform or measure up or watch your back or worry today because you already have a safe haven.
“Make your home in Me.” John 15:4
“Home is where we can laugh and cry, embrace and dance, sleep long and dream quietly, eat, read, play, watch the fire, listen to music and be with a friend. Home is where we can rest and be healed.” Henri Nouwen
Figuring out what you want and then trying to make it happen (day after day, year after year) is hard work. Maybe it’s supposed to be a lot simpler and less exhausting than that.
Father, I am tired from ‘my will be done.’ I want to rest for a while in ‘Thy will be done.’ From Matthew 6:10
“[R]est in God is . . . the true bliss of the creature." Andrew Murray
Trying to make yourself happy is about as relaxing and rewarding as chasing your tail. Once you give up, you can rest easy, even on the parched and weary days.
“Let me be full; let me be empty. Let me have all things; let me have nothing. I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure. . . .” John Wesley
“[I]n a parched and weary land . . . I am satisfied. . . . I rejoice in the shadow of Your wings. . . .” Psalm 63:1, 5, 7
