Come to Me… —Matthew 11:28
God intends for us to live a well-rounded life
in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the
outside. Then we tend to fall back into self-examination, a habit that we
thought was gone. Self-awareness is the first thing that will upset the
completeness of our life in God, and self-awareness continually produces a
sense of struggling and turmoil in our lives. Self-awareness is not sin, and it
can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped into a totally
new set of circumstances. Yet it is never God’s will that we should be anything
less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs our rest in Him
must be rectified at once, and it is not rectified by being ignored but only by
coming to Jesus Christ. If we will come to Him, asking Him to produce
Christ-awareness in us, He will always do it, until we fully learn to abide in
Him.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys
the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
Beware of allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to
divide your life. This only serves to sap your strength and slow your spiritual
growth. Beware of anything that can split your oneness with Him, causing you to
see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is as important as staying right
spiritually. And the only solution is a very simple one— “Come to Me….” The
intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested
and measured by these words. Yet in every detail of our lives where we are
found not to be real, we would rather dispute the findings than come to Jesus.
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