Resting
This is the longest that I have gone without posting. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that I have gone through some changes at work that have changed my schedule significantly. Up until a couple of weeks ago I worked as a plant engineer which was a 5 day, weekends off, straight day shift position, the ideal for most people but cuts in our companies plant engineering staffs have forced me to take an offer to become a production supervisor working rotating 7 day shifts. So, my schedule has changed and I am finding a need to physically rest more.
There is another form of resting also taking place with me. I have discovered the benefit of placing all of my trust in Christ only and thus resting in the work of Christ alone. So for the time being at least, I have had little inspiration to do anything else….just rest. It is really nice to have no sense of a need to perform anything, not even making blog posts. That may change but for now, I am enjoying both a time of rest from my new work and a sense of rest from many years of religious obligation that often left me with a constant need to be doing something in order to feel accepted by God and by other believers.
A real negative to my present work situation is that it appears it will keep me from attending the Grace Gathering in August.
May I mention my appreciation for my fellow blogging friends and brothers who are gracious enough to understand where I am and totally supportive of my situation, both at work and in life in general, including blogging or the lack of it. I just hope I get some opportunities in the near future to get together with you…around this crazy work schedule. Those times of fellowship only add to my restfulness.
Grace & peace.
Resting is a word that we all need to understand more and more especially in the spiritual realm. I personally believe you will be inspired even on a higher level because of your being in this place of rest. It is God who works in us to his own good pleasure and will. Rest on my brother, and we’ll be here when God decides to inspire you.
Hi steve my friend,I would just like to say that you have been a good friend over the past couple of years.I apreciate all the work you have put into helping others come to the understanding of the Gospel of the grace and peace of God our Father.It’s enough to know that you are there.Rest in peace my friend.He hee!But you know what i mean steve.We can really rest in peace now that we know the truth.I wish you well in your new position.Keep in touch when you can my friend.Roy also is going through a bad time at the minuite.Please remember him in your prayers and his dear wife simone.
Your friend,
kenneth.
You’re right Cliff. God is very much alive in us and willing and doing what is good.
hahaha! That’s funny Kenneth but we can truly rest is peace…and still be very much aLife knowing that all that is required of the Father is truly finished.
Sorry to hear about Roy. I havn’t had much time to read blogs lately. He & his wife will be in my thoughts and prayers.
I love everyone’s honesty and support here.
Steve,
good resting!
Take care of yourself,
Mindy
I, too, am in that resting place.. I, too, am not going to be able to make the Grace Gathering. That is my wife’s birthday weekend. I feel I should be with her since we see each other only every 2-4 weeks. Hope everything at work goes well. That seems like a big change for such an OLD guy! (heh heh).
Hey Steve,
God always, truly decides the direction of all of our lives and I think we ‘more mature’ saints rejoice when we find that God is not really very interested in our performance but instead, our dependence upon Him. Just as I remember Peter saying that as a young man he went where he willed but as an old man he was taken to where he knew not by God. I used to work so hard at pleasing God and now I know that I’m truly, no more than an infant and all I have to do is open my arms to Jesus and He picks me up, places me on his hip and carries me to where ever He desires that I should go. The joy of knowing Jesus is in the perfect safety of the parent/child relationship with the Heavenly Father of us all.:0)
Pam
Mindy, sorry I won’t be able to meet you….yet. But I’ll bet we make it there some time.
Don R, yep I doubt your wife would look favorably upon you leaving that weekend. We older guys have enough wisdom to not do those sort of things.
Yes it is a big change but I like some aspects of it. Hey, I still hope to make it to Dallas this fall but I’m not sure when.
Pam, glad to hear from my ‘mature’ sister….who also has the wisdom of years to know we are but babes in our Fathers loving eyes.
Hi
I am new to this site and am so enjoying fellowshipping here.
Cliff you quoted one of my fav.scrip. Phil 2:12 & 13..We only work out what GOD works in…HE is the one who makes us willing and able, not our selves. Talk about rest!!
And Pam I liked your comment that it is not about performance but dependence. So freeing!!!
I just listened to Mikes little tape on the site here and he backed all this info up…impure religion trys, true christianity trusts..
When we walk in the power of its about HIS commitment to me, not mine to HIM,,,, we know rest, cause love never fails..
Blessings …
Connie