…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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