We’ve made it to Friday again, folks! Let’s finish well! 📖🌻☕
Today we are reading in 1 Thessalonians 3. How Paul matter-of-factly states that they were appointed by God to experience the hardships they were going through. The rest, instead of panic, that results in being grounded in who God is, and that He is trustworthy even (especially!) in trials. The faithfulness of the church there at Thessalonica was heartening to them in the midst of it all.
We finish working on our memory passage Psalm 103:1-16 by having a little fill-in-the-blank “quiz” together today. 🙂 Monday we’ll add verse 17. We are writing Matthew 6:25-29–we flourish because God is faithful in His provision for us all. God knows all the needs we have–“He’s never surprised”.
In Streams in the Desert has “Put Forth” as its topic–“On, in His name, to green pastures and still waters and mountain heights! He goeth before thee. Whatever awaits us is encountered first by Him.” Tozer considers “The Rote to Rutness”: “Spiritually speaking, the rut is bondage to the rote, and the greatest danger lies in our inability to sense or feel this bondage.” If we are in a rut spiritually, we’ve begun performing “all the things” by rote and there is no more a sense of freshness, forward momentum, progress, and growth. Not a healthy thing for the Christian.
Spurgeon, in Faith’s Checkbook, our title is “Rest is a Gift”–“…if you come to Him He will unload you. He carried the crushing mass of our sin that we might no longer carry it.”
We finish today with our scripture writing passage, Psalm 47:8–speaking of rest, we can find it in knowing that God reigns over everything. In The Valley of Vision, we read the prayer, “The Broken Heart”–“All things in me call for my rejection, All things in thee plead my acceptance.”
Thanks for joining me! See you all on Monday, Lord willing!
Listen here: https://anchor.fm/thequietrestpodcast/episodes/Quiet-Time-Corner-January-14–2022-Ep–250-e1cmduo