If I've learned anything of great importance and brings such peace is: Life is too short to sweat the small stuff. Don't be chained by your worry or control of things.
Matthew 6: 21-34
I personally need to be reminded of this daily. The worries of this world, the business, it will only choke out the life God is desiring for me to rest in. The most important thing is my love relationship with Jesus. Everything else will fall into place.
Jesus knows everything about me. Not one thing goes unseen by Him. If I am allowing the concerns of my life to come before Him, I will not have the peace He desires for me to have. These concerns start off small, but if I don't realize what's happening I become blind to what it can do to my relationship with Jesus. Quiet time can become something I check off the to do list, rather than really being desperate to sit in His lap and love on Him through His word. The deceiver knows how to creep in, and a good sign he's done that is your peace is like a roller coaster.
When I really do a heart check on Matthew 6: 21-22, I know that God understands our humanness, but He also wants us to understand His Holiness. Family, husband, wife, children, grandchildren, material things, nothing should come before our love relationship with Jesus (Luke 14:26). "For where my treasure is, there my heart will be also." I want my whole body to be full of light. Than I can rest in the Lord with things that come my way. Jesus wants to be, and is my treasure.
How about you? Do you have peace and rest that passes anything you can understand? Even if you are battling an illness, a busy life, loneliness, prayers not being answered the way you wish they would? If not, do a heart check. Ask Jesus, is He placed in your life where He desires to be.
Is He your first love? "Awaken" to what is really of importance. A heart completely His.
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