DAILY WORD – TUESDAY 16 JUNE 2009

Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent [that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger]. John 6:29 (Amplified Bible)

The only ‘work’ that God asks of us is to totally depend on Jesus in every way.

Now as simple as this may sound, the best in us, is that which is rooted in our Lord, and our trust and reliance on Him.

And yet I am the first to admit that I tend to wear myself out (trying to sort things out in my own strength) before throwing myself into the Fathers arms when I finally come to the end of myself.

I have lived to find that the hardest ‘work’ is resting in Christ – everything within us screams ‘do something’ when the ‘something’ we should be doing is cleaving to Jesus with all our might.

And at the end the day it is His ‘something’ we need to be doing, that which He has imparted to us, and given us the power and ability to do.

When we let go of the ‘steering wheel’ of our lives He will steer us through the storms and into calm water – but remember that very rarely in a storm, can we hear voices around us, and so often in the storms of life – we shout ‘why cant I hear you Lord’ when we should be shouting ‘ok I’ll hang on – you steer’--- and when He brings us into the calm waters once again, we will  hear His voice, and know that it is His saving grace that prevails for us each and every day of our lives.

In Christ all things are possible – without Christ most things are impossible!

Stay fervently focused

Much love

 

Chrissy