Not Always Easy

Man, when did life get so crazy?

A friend asked today how I had ever had time to work. I'm not sure actually.

Quitting has given me such a chance to focus on pressing needs with my family and kids and the people God puts into my life. A chance to focus on God more. I'm thankful I took the leap.

However, I also tend to turn some (maybe lots) of that focus into worry.

But God has promised rest.

I was thinking about that as I read about Moses sending the twelve spies to check out God's promised land in the book of Numbers. A land God had already told them was good, and was theirs. How all but two had come back speaking gloom and doom, and the Israelites began freaking out and doubting God's promise. They had the promise of God's rest, but they expected getting there to be "easy street". Not filled with people who hated them. I love what the two positive spies, Joshua and Caleb say in response: If the Lord is pleased with us, He will lead us to that land and will give it to us. Only do not rebel against the Lord. Do not be afraid of the people of this land. The Lord is with us.

If God is with us, then why do we so often fall back into self-reliance and self-focus and unbelief when the path is no longer easy? Oh it's easy to say we believe, but when things block the path, I personally tend to react with panic first. It isn't always so easy to get the words from my head to my heart. It often takes some time and lots and lots of prayer.

So I asked myself what is God's rest?


To me it is a place where even when we are faced with a walk of faith (i.e. something other than God just handing us what we ask for) we have utmost confidence in God being who He says He is-trustworthy, loving and good, with perfect plans for us.