Today I woke up late and basically sat around for a few hours. There wasn't much to accomplish, either inside our out, due to the rain and snow. I was feeling pretty guilty about this, but to tell the truth I was enjoying the rest. I had just found my kindle--it had been lost for a few days--so I decided to update myself on the Quickened Word website.
I found that the most recent Rhema Word really spoke to me. Among the quickened phrases were things like, "Therapy couch. Rest. This is good for you." What? Yes, I felt God saying that this rest was good for me. I kept reading the article: "Grown men therapy. Tinkering with their tools." Here is that article.
That part really hit me...the author of this post is a lady who presumably doesn't use building tools much. I was the one who had been having a little respite from work, away from tools (I'd been working with power tools recently). So this spoke so strongly to me. Glory to God, there is a fullness to His Words that is hard for humans, myself included, to conceptualize.
Confirmed: Vanessa and I were also talking about this topic. After of few days of little sleep, she slept nearly14 hours last night. We were both pretty surprised by this. A friend of hers had told her a few days before not to feel guilty for taking rest time. Her sleeping seemed to validate that message.
Everything was coming together. Resting is also a recurring guilt trigger for me, for a few reasons. I still need at least 9 or 10 hours of sleep each night. But I feel God saying, it's OK. In fact, it's good. God is so merciful, His staff gives discipline, but it also gives comfort.
Confirmed: Even as I was writing the above paragraphs, I began feeling guilty. I said, "God, what should I do right now? Do you want me to be doing something else right now? Should I be feeding the poor or something? Should I volunteer someplace?" ...etc...I got pretty guilt motivated. Doesn't God love us no matter what? So the important thing is that we're willing to carry out His specific calling for us. It is not by works, but by faith...God responded and spoke some things to my heart. I believe this blog is, for me, a call to being faithful in little. I wouldn't be doing this if not for His leading.
Anyways, immediately after I was saying this to God, my Father in law got a phone call in the other room. He was talking to some company for a business call, and it went like this:
"Hello, Tom? Is Tom available?" I pictured that God was saying this to me. In the phone call, Tom was indeed available. And in the spiritual, I had just offered myself, again, as available to God.
The call conversation went on. "You gave me your card, that's why I called you." Once again, this talk was quickened to my ear as being from God to me. I gave Him my "card"--after all, all the days of my life are written in His Book (Psalm 139:16).
So I remembered that when I gave Him my will, He had responded with a specific calling. This calling has been quite an adventure so far. HIS calling has in fact been "exceedingly abundantly" more than I could have hoped for (Ephesians 3:20). Praise Jesus that He has called us to rest, as well. He alone knows what we need. If God is prompting us to rest, we need to take it! We need to take it and use it for Him.
I found that the most recent Rhema Word really spoke to me. Among the quickened phrases were things like, "Therapy couch. Rest. This is good for you." What? Yes, I felt God saying that this rest was good for me. I kept reading the article: "Grown men therapy. Tinkering with their tools." Here is that article.
That part really hit me...the author of this post is a lady who presumably doesn't use building tools much. I was the one who had been having a little respite from work, away from tools (I'd been working with power tools recently). So this spoke so strongly to me. Glory to God, there is a fullness to His Words that is hard for humans, myself included, to conceptualize.
Confirmed: Vanessa and I were also talking about this topic. After of few days of little sleep, she slept nearly14 hours last night. We were both pretty surprised by this. A friend of hers had told her a few days before not to feel guilty for taking rest time. Her sleeping seemed to validate that message.
Everything was coming together. Resting is also a recurring guilt trigger for me, for a few reasons. I still need at least 9 or 10 hours of sleep each night. But I feel God saying, it's OK. In fact, it's good. God is so merciful, His staff gives discipline, but it also gives comfort.
Confirmed: Even as I was writing the above paragraphs, I began feeling guilty. I said, "God, what should I do right now? Do you want me to be doing something else right now? Should I be feeding the poor or something? Should I volunteer someplace?" ...etc...I got pretty guilt motivated. Doesn't God love us no matter what? So the important thing is that we're willing to carry out His specific calling for us. It is not by works, but by faith...God responded and spoke some things to my heart. I believe this blog is, for me, a call to being faithful in little. I wouldn't be doing this if not for His leading.
Anyways, immediately after I was saying this to God, my Father in law got a phone call in the other room. He was talking to some company for a business call, and it went like this:
"Hello, Tom? Is Tom available?" I pictured that God was saying this to me. In the phone call, Tom was indeed available. And in the spiritual, I had just offered myself, again, as available to God.
The call conversation went on. "You gave me your card, that's why I called you." Once again, this talk was quickened to my ear as being from God to me. I gave Him my "card"--after all, all the days of my life are written in His Book (Psalm 139:16).
So I remembered that when I gave Him my will, He had responded with a specific calling. This calling has been quite an adventure so far. HIS calling has in fact been "exceedingly abundantly" more than I could have hoped for (Ephesians 3:20). Praise Jesus that He has called us to rest, as well. He alone knows what we need. If God is prompting us to rest, we need to take it! We need to take it and use it for Him.
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