Wow what a stresfull week Im having thus far, filled with commotion and misscommunication.Its amazing though how God can speak to us during all the commotion, softly, gently, peacefully, reminding us to calm down and become still in His presence. Its so easy to get lost within a schedule and buzziness that one forgets to remain plugged into the source. When everything gets thrown out of proportion its easy to try and sort things out by yourself, but who do you run to when the paw-paw hits the fan??Its useless trying figure things out on your own.Like yesterday..I was on my way home to Paarl from Rondebosch and I took the 10:30 from Salt river station..It was my off day so I just wanted to get the 90 minute train ride behind me so that I can get home and relax.The train gets to Muldersvlei station (about 20 minutes from my destination) and just before the station it decides that it wants to stand for a full hour..so I wait..patiently listening to sermons of John Piper on my phone..A hour comes and goes and the train finally decides to snake the last bit towards the station..BUT..on arrival the trian decides "I am sooooo tired" and it stands for another hour...jolly..by now my patience is dry and I dont have anything to listen to on my phone..eisssshhhh..So another hour goes by and just when the train starts to move my boss phones, asking where I am and requesting that I immediately get on the next train back to Cape Town to go to work.at this point I am really frustrated and so not happy with how this day is turning out... I then reach a point on the way back where I just give up and ask God to take control from here coz I have absolute zero patience and I am really about to loose it..Suddenly I just feel this tangible peace set in, almost like a burning sensation burning through my entire body and putting my soul at rest. I realised that it was God answering my plea for help and providing me with His peace that transends all understanding..
God has been teaching me alot about His peace latelty, walking in it, trusting in it and asking Him for it when I need it...Its amazing How God will always take us to the point where we have no other option but to give up. He refreshes our realisation of our need for Him because sometimes we get so wound up in what we are doing we neglect spending time with Him or we rush through our devotions not even waiting on Him to talk to us. We need to walk in a constant connection with God each and every day.Without it we cannot expect to take anything good from our day or have a good outcome to our day. We as children of God our but hosepipes, if we dont stay connected to the tap of never-ending,refreshing and constanly flowing water or pipes are gonna run dry. Its essential that we remain connected THROUGHOUT the day, if not you only hve yourself to blame if things dont turn out for the good...
God has been teaching me alot about His peace latelty, walking in it, trusting in it and asking Him for it when I need it...Its amazing How God will always take us to the point where we have no other option but to give up. He refreshes our realisation of our need for Him because sometimes we get so wound up in what we are doing we neglect spending time with Him or we rush through our devotions not even waiting on Him to talk to us. We need to walk in a constant connection with God each and every day.Without it we cannot expect to take anything good from our day or have a good outcome to our day. We as children of God our but hosepipes, if we dont stay connected to the tap of never-ending,refreshing and constanly flowing water or pipes are gonna run dry. Its essential that we remain connected THROUGHOUT the day, if not you only hve yourself to blame if things dont turn out for the good...
Yes, I can relate to that. These days it is as if the world around us is just getting more hectic. People get busier and busier. I told my colleagues it seems to me the more personel we get, the heavier the workload gets. We as children of God must really try hard not to get all caught up in the chaos around us. We need to make time during the day to just get quite and talk with God, otherwise we will have a hard time coping.
ReplyDeleteThese days I find that God is teaching us to trust and rely on Him completely, He is really stretching the importance of having patience and we can only have patience when wehave His peace within us.... His peace within us should overflow to the world around us, our immediate world,so that they might see what peace really looks like.
Times are getting hard, but we just need to focus more on God and rest in Him, we will make it. He is still in controle of the Universe.