I have been STRIVING too hard,
but isn't STRIVING
trying too hard
with overexertion
with blood, sweat, & tears
trying to do the impossible,
yet believing you can do the impossible?
Because if you only STRIVED harder
then you could actually
part the Red Sea.
Hmm
Sounds like I am STRIVING to be GOD
as HE gently reminded me in a dream
that I can't part the
Red Sea
or change anyone's heart.
Is this PRIDE or is it my caring so much
for the hurting
for the sick
for the grieving
for the lost
that I have lost touch with the
ONE
who is STRIVING to tell me
to
LET GO
&
to LET GOD
do HIS job
so that
JESUS can do HIS job
so that the
HOLY SPIRIT
can do HIS job
while I do my job~
"CEASE STRIVING and know that I am GOD" (Psalm 46:10).
No wonder
HIS JOY that was my STRENGTH has become WEARINESS.
No wonder
HIS HOPE has become DESPAIR.
No wonder,
because I have wandered off the path
by STRIVING to do the impossible
that I have lost
HIS JOY & HIS HOPE.
Oh how humbling this is,
yet not in a condemning way
but in a convicting way
because
GOD is such a gentleman
that
"HE leads me beside the still and quiet waters" (Psalm 23:2)
to the space & place of
total PEACE
that is at the feet of JESUS
who looks into my eyes
with such tenderness
and doesn't have to say any words
because
HE is so STILL
&
KNOWS me so well
that
HE lets me wear HIS YOKE
that fits me perfectly
so that it makes me
CEASE STRIVING
because
HE is the one who carries my burdened heart
to a place of
REST
that
CEASES me from STRIVING to do GOD'S job
because it is
HIS BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS
that takes mine & yours.
Oh STRIVING you are
NO LONGER AN OPTION
when I & when you
just
“Come to ME, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from ME, for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light"
(Matthew 11:28-30)
Wow.
PEACE fills my soul
as HIS JOY returns
as I remove myself from the equation
because
I can't do the impossible
no matter how hard I STRIVE
because when
JESUS is my ONLY OPTION
I have all that I need
because
at the feet of JESUS
"I am caught up in YOUR PRESENCE" (from "NOTHING ELSE", listen below)
and that is where
STRIVING IS NO LONGER AN OPTION!