Stop Here to Rest

” I am humbled and quieted in Your Presence. Like a contented child rests on its mother’s lap, I’m Your resting child and my soul is content in You.”-Psalm 131:2

I have pushed myself beyond my physical limits, doing the work of men for hours. Once again, I am reminded of my smallness and my fragile frame. I always think myself invincible and stronger than those around me. This flimsy thinking has no basis other than my own thoughts toward myself.

I am grateful to my God who sees. Rather than leaving me to myself, debilitated, he lets me work until I can barely stand and then pushes me to my shower and then my bed for rest. I realize, through the next day, as I slowly regain my strength, that He is not fooled by my bravado. He knows my frame and He knows it well. I am the one who fights to finish, who ignores the signs of exhaustion, who presses on into the night when man is made to work a portion of the day and then to REST.

Thank You my Lord for giving me free will, for allowing me this freedom to discover my own weakness and then gently bringing me to humility and a sweet dependence upon Your healing and wisdom.

Help me to know these things before I foolishly hurt myself. Is this the stubborn hard head I have heard so much about?

I will rest on Your lap dear One. Speak to me Your Heart that I may share it with them that come after.

As I climb up onto each new mountain for the day, fill me with the joy of submission as I follow Your way. I know Your Ways are best.