[sorry, this quote was supposed to go out the morning of Jan. 6th, but I just saw that I scheduled it for 2105 instead of 2015! I didn’t want you to have to wait 90 years to get it! So it got posted at 7pm instead.]
We’ve been praying for God to bring our hearts peace. We’ve been begging Him to open the floodgates of heaven and give us a teaser of the rest to come. We’ve been yearning for the “light” burden He promised, wondering whether we’ve misinterpreted Matthew 11:29-30 because our yokes certainly don’t feel easy or light. Could we be the root of our own stress? Might our ambitions be to blame — at least some of the time? What if our pride — including our fear of being unknown — was keeping us from the rest that Jesus promised?
–Anonymous, from the book Embracing Obscurity
Is your pride getting in the way of you finding the peace and rest that God wants you to have? I know that too often my pride can trip me up in telling me what I deserve, what I should have. When that happens I fall into comparison mode and all of my peace can quickly drain away. May God be all that I desire (because He is certainly all that I need), and may I find full peace and rest through my relationship with Him.