FINDING GOD IN SURRENDERING

FINDING GOD IN SURRENDERING


We are all BATTLING something
In this often
Difficult world


Depression-Addiction-PAIN-and just
STRIVING to FIND God
In this sometimes
God FORSAKEN world


We often FIND GOD
When we least expect him


When we give up on
Our efforts and just LET HIM
Come and find us


“Therefore=let us strive
To enter into that REST


So that no one may fall
After the same example
Of disobedience” Hebrews 4:11


We WANT to find God
We want to search and seek
But we don't always
Want to give up
OUR disobedience


OFTEN our God
Will find us
If we just stop
And REST


If we just
SURRENDER our own personal will
To GOD


SURRENDERING to find God
In rest


“Truly my soul
Finds REST in God
My salvation
COMES from him” Psalm 62:1


“The SPIRIT of the Lord
Will REST on him
The Spirit of wisdom
And understanding


The Spirit of counsel
And of might
The Spirit of the knowledge
And fear of the Lord--------------------” Isaiah 11:2


“........for anyone
Who enters GOD'S REST
Also RESTS from their works


Just as God
Did from his” Hebrews 4:10


Sometimes even SURRENDERING
To God can become
Hard work


Sometimes we have to WORK
To strive for a willingness
To SURRENDER


And when we STOP working
Either from failure-exhaustion-
Or whatever


We will FIND that
God FINDS US=when
We are at rest


“YES my soul=
Finds REST in God
My hope
Comes from him” Psalm 62:5


“This is what the
Lord says=
'STAND at the crossroads
And look-
Ask for the ancient paths


Ask where
The GOOD WAY is
And walk in it


And you will FIND REST
For your souls........'” Jeremiah 6:16


PEACE comes from exhaustion
From SURRENDERING to God=
When he finds us


We can TRUST the Lord
Even when our own
Efforts FAIL


Saint Paul tells
The HEBREW people
“Therefore a SABBATH REST
Still remains
For the PEOPLE OF GOD” Hebrews 4:9


In Jesus' name and in the name of our ALL LOVING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
1-17-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Eve Tushnet