Read these great quotes in one of Graham Cooke's Journals, "The Language of Promise".
"How do You want me to rest?"
"What does rest look like for me?"
"When would You like me to rest?"
"Where would you like me to rest?"
... but ... never really getting to the actual REST part.
And I crashed and burned.
I was forced into REST by my lack of it. Now I am becoming an expert (at least for me personally) in the art of spiritual REST. Not doing anything, just being with God (which incidentally is what Graham Cooke calls his journal series: "Being With God").
I am anxiously awaiting being allowed to "DO" something again ...
... but in the mean time I will be more appreciative the value of "being".
Psalm 46:10, from BlueLetterBible:
be still ::: raphah, strong's 07503 ::: to sink, relax, sink down, let drop, abandon, relax, refrain, forsake, to let go, to refrain, let alone, to be quiet
and know ::: yada, strong's 03045 ::: to know, learn to know, to perceive, find out and discern, to discriminate, distinguish, to know by experience, to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess, be acquainted with
I am God :: elohiym, strong's 0430 ::: the (true) God
"The western church must learn to meditate, setting aside time to think deeply about God."This is good stuff. In the year before all hell broke loose in my spiritual life, I was prophesied over many times about REST. I sought the Lord on it, asking a myriad of questions:
"Meditation and stillness flow into an upgrade of our peace."
"Without an upgrade in our capacity to rest in the Lord, we find ourselves runing on adrenaline. That's okay for awhile, but for every adrenaline high, there's an adrenaline low. Often people get down and depressed because they have been running on adrenaline, and they've run out. It's not the pressure of life that gets to us, it's the pressure of how we run it".
"It's okay to be tired in the work, but it's not okay to be tired of the work. We must learn to give ourselves to peace, rest and meditation."
"We live our lives in the tension of a paradox between being and doing. The key to succeeding in this quandary is to always choose being over doing. We must choose to take time out to rest. We all have to do many things, but being is just as important".
"How do You want me to rest?"
"What does rest look like for me?"
"When would You like me to rest?"
"Where would you like me to rest?"
... but ... never really getting to the actual REST part.
And I crashed and burned.
I was forced into REST by my lack of it. Now I am becoming an expert (at least for me personally) in the art of spiritual REST. Not doing anything, just being with God (which incidentally is what Graham Cooke calls his journal series: "Being With God").
I am anxiously awaiting being allowed to "DO" something again ...
... but in the mean time I will be more appreciative the value of "being".
Psalm 46:10, from BlueLetterBible:
be still ::: raphah, strong's 07503 ::: to sink, relax, sink down, let drop, abandon, relax, refrain, forsake, to let go, to refrain, let alone, to be quiet
and know ::: yada, strong's 03045 ::: to know, learn to know, to perceive, find out and discern, to discriminate, distinguish, to know by experience, to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess, be acquainted with
I am God :: elohiym, strong's 0430 ::: the (true) God
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