"Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28
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.
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