As I leaned back in my chair after reading my Bible and writing in my journal this morning, I just wanted to 'rest'. "Just 10 minutes, Lord" is what I thought. I just wanted a quick nap. Then these words came into my mind, and now they keep playing over and over.
"Come rest my soul and trust in Him, the wind and rain, they know His Name." I was curious as to why that popped into my mind, so I looked up the lyrics to 'Come Rest My Soul'.... and I found that these words are not the exact words of the song. I looked to see ... here is the chorus from the lyrics....
"Find rest my soul, In Christ alone, Know His Power, In quietness and trust:".
I'm even more curious as to why the words even popped into my mind because the wind is not blowing outside, nor is there rain... but perhaps the Lord is trying to tell me something. Did you know that sometimes the Lord will put a phrase or a word into your mind because He wants to share something with you?
Now my thought this morning was just to take a ten minute nap before I had to get up and get dressed for the day. I can't dwaddle like I usually do because I have a dentist appointment at 8AM. So I do have to dress and comb my hair - and brush my teeth - and be ready to get out the door in another hour. Come rest my soul to me was meaning, Lord, can I please take a ten minute nap this morning?
But the words. Come rest my soul, and trust in Him, tell me that even though life is painful, that even when the storms come at me and beat me up, I can rest in Him. The Lord has gotten me through some very painful and difficult times. When I lean in Him, I do find my rest. On the outside I may appear that all is well in my life, but many times, inside of me, my heart is breaking in sorrow.
The wind and the rain know His Name. Yeah, and they obey Him too! You can read stories about the wind and rain calming down in the Bible - and the only words He needed to speak was 'Peace, Be Still'. And they were still.
Sometimes when life comes banging on our door and life is hard and painful and difficult.... when we take the time to lean into Jesus, and talk to Him about what is going on in our minds, and in our hearts, He brings stillness and peace to our troubled hearts. We may not always get the answers we want; we may not still want to do the right thing. Our pride and our rights always get in the way of what Jesus says to do.
The greatest commandment, Jesus said, was to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, with all our soul, with all our mind, with all our strength. And the second one was to love our neighbor as ourself. When we love Jesus, and we love others, we are obedient to the Words of Jesus.
Sometimes it is hard to love beyond the hurt. I get it. Sometimes when I have been hurt I want to shut the door and lock it on that relationship, and run away to where no one knows me nor my pain. But the best place that I can run to is into my quiet space, and talk to Jesus about it. I tell Him all my troubles, and He alone will bring the calmness and peace to my soul that I need.
Why don't you try it? Tell Jesus whta you are feeling right now. Give Him your frustration, your anger, your fears. Ask Him to help you work your way through it. And you know what? He will. When you ask Him to.
Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT) "Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything that we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus."
Blessings!
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