So many days I have felt like there is so much I want to get done and so little time to do it all! Can anyone relate? It starts getting hard to spend time alone with Jesus, you start going through your day forgetting about his presence completely and isn’t it funny how stress always seems to follow.
I have come to know that when I am stressing it means that I’m not aware of Jesus’ amazing love. Let me explain:
For a couple of weeks I got really behind on some of my school work. I honestly didn’t really realize it but I was pretty stressed about it. I started doing tons of studying to try and catch up, I studied and studied and studied, and then studied some more. Where did that leave me? With an A+! Haha nope. Actually still behind and still stressed. When I finally came to Jesus and talked to Him about it I finally came to the realization of how much I was stressing. I thought I could gain my peace by catching up on my school work! I was willing to study every waking moment of my days in order to get that. What I forgot was that peace doesn’t come from having my ducks in a row and being all caught up on school work but, as He told me, from knowing the Truth of who I am in Him.
Trying to be caught up on school work was the way I tried to find peace apart from Jesus. Maybe you are looking for that in hanging out with friends, having money, looking a certain way, playing sports, doing well in school. Living in the revelation of Jesus’ love changes everything.
Check this out:
2 Cor 4:17-18 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison…
In Paul’s life, part of the momentary light affliction was what he had described earlier in the chapter: 5 times he received brutal whippings almost until death, in danger from his friends, in danger from his enemy, gone hungry, to name a few. Paul could he have feared tons of things but he chose not to. How was he able to keep this mindset? lets continue…
v18 …while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The bottom line is that when we are looking at Jesus nothing else matters. When you set your mind on Him you will no longer stress about the rest of the world. I Promise! It’s SO freeing and the peace He gives is incredible!
Here’s a couple of ways I’ve been setting my mind on him:
Delighting in Him in the fact that:
His Spirit, lives within your physical body! (1 Cor 6:19, Eph 2:21-22, Rom 8:9)
Resting in the Fact that:
No matter what you have done you will be presented spotless before Jesus, he will look at you and declare that you are AMAZING, that He is yours, you are His, and that he wants to spend forever with you! Eph 5:25-27, Jude 1:24-25, 2 Cor 11:2
Finally I want to encourage you all to pray without ceasing. Galatians 5:16 says, “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” The flesh will want us to look for peace anywhere but in Jesus, but the Spirit says “Aint-nobody-got-time-fo-dat!” I believe that we walk in the Spirit to the degree that we communicate with the Spirit. When it says pray without ceasing, it’s not kidding! You can talk with him everywhere you go! He’s got awesome thing’s to say to you today! Go ahead and listen to Him and trust that what you hear of His character is Him talking to You!
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
You guys are awesome! Stoked for the reunion!
-Seth
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