"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest."

{Mat 11:28}

What a week this has been. In fact, the last few weeks, even the whole month has been quite a struggle. Where does all this turmoil come from?

In morning devotions with my Lord, I asked this question; "Father, Jesus teaches us to always trust in You; always include You in all that we do with the purpose of continually bringing glory to You through our obedience. Show me where I need to do better in pleasing You Lord, Amen".

I then went about my usual studies. When I opened Oswald Chambers, Utmost for His Highest, it was the chapter entitled Christ-Awareness that immediately bonded my full attention. I pray that you will find direction and comfort in what Brother Chambers has written as I did, AMEN.

CHRIST-AWARENESS

Oswald Chambers

Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think of every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as something to fight against, not as something you should allow to remain. Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all. Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. Don’t allow yourself to say, “Well, they have just misunderstood me, and this is something over which they should be apologizing to me; I’m sure I must have this cleared up with them already.” Learn to leave others alone regarding this. Simply ask the Lord to give you Christ-awareness, and He will steady you until your completeness in Him is absolute.

A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the will of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even slightly from the will of God, we begin to ask, “Lord, what is your will?” A child of God never prays to be made aware of the fact that God answers prayer, because he is so restfully certain that God always answers prayer.

If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness tremendously. Jesus says, “Come to Me…and I will give you rest,” that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness. Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest— the rest of the completion of activity in our lives that is never aware of itself.

(My deepest gratitude to Oswald Chambers Publications - London with this heartfelt thanks by attribution)

It is so difficult for some of us to actually take our hands OFF the steering wheel and let HIM drive. Trust in Jesus. Satan's most effective tool of temptation is our impatience. We HATE to WAIT.

Let the Lord drive. Trust no one but Him.

Come into me Jesus, remove the me and replace it fully with Thee, AMEN.

"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. (30) "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." {Mat 11:29-30}

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?