This week's Encouragement was submitted by: Caroline McColloch
Do you ever despair from the “weight” of daily living? Sometimes the responsibilities of adulthood seem too heavy to bear. Adding to this is all the news in our time of pandemic and racial reckoning as a nation; things from which we cannot completely absolve ourselves, as members of society and products of history.
“Come to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest.” Jesus knows…that the world is full of pain and suffering—It is also full of beauty and joy! He shows us how to face the suffering directly in obedience to and in intimate relationship with God. Therein, perhaps, one finds the promised rest…Avoidance and denial only lead to more suffering; it is the anti-God state of mind, or being in “the flesh” as St. Paul would render it.
To be human is to be mercurial; forgetful: prone to the innumerable temptations of the flesh, whether a believer or not. But believers are in the habit of remembering God’s Word to us, and OH! How very much we need constant reminders! It’s not that we never fall, but we always get up. That’s why I love this poster, listing all the descriptions of who Christians are and what we do. It tells us where we came from, who we belong to, how we act in the world, and where we are going; powerful and necessary reminders, for creatures and a world that fell from Eden.
Do you ever despair from the “weight” of daily living? Sometimes the responsibilities of adulthood seem too heavy to bear. Adding to this is all the news in our time of pandemic and racial reckoning as a nation; things from which we cannot completely absolve ourselves, as members of society and products of history.
“Come to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest.” Jesus knows…that the world is full of pain and suffering—It is also full of beauty and joy! He shows us how to face the suffering directly in obedience to and in intimate relationship with God. Therein, perhaps, one finds the promised rest…Avoidance and denial only lead to more suffering; it is the anti-God state of mind, or being in “the flesh” as St. Paul would render it.
To be human is to be mercurial; forgetful: prone to the innumerable temptations of the flesh, whether a believer or not. But believers are in the habit of remembering God’s Word to us, and OH! How very much we need constant reminders! It’s not that we never fall, but we always get up. That’s why I love this poster, listing all the descriptions of who Christians are and what we do. It tells us where we came from, who we belong to, how we act in the world, and where we are going; powerful and necessary reminders, for creatures and a world that fell from Eden.
