Monday, September 04, 2006
He never sleeps, He never slumbers... He never tires of hearing our prayers
Hey dear bros, sisters, just want to share something that God helped me understand better today. :)
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Thanks so much Lord. I really needed to be still and know that You are God. Was quite tense and frustrated with the amount of schoolwork, and especially because I had left my book pouch back in LT8 - was so frustrated over the fact that I keep on leaving things behind - and worried about relating with some people (e.g. there's this project mate in my group, whom I'm having bad vibes about... she seems quite the proud type I think...)
But after sitting down and listening to Don Moen's "He Never Sleeps" - I really needed the time with God...
You know how much I miss You, Lord?
So just listened twice and meditated on the song. And I think something that God reminded me, thru that beautiful song, was what it really means to cast all our cares on Him. So often I talk about it, but what does it really mean?
Think God corrected my misunderstanding of this verse... He explained to me that yes, I do have weaknesses, and I WILL fail. But what really matters is that I have done my best, whether it's academically, spiritually, mentally, physically, socially or emotionally...
And I ask and let Him take care of whatever I can't take care of already. Because He wants to take care of me too. He's our Daddy after all. :)
As the song goes:
"And He never sleeps, He never slumbers
He never tires of hearing our prayers
When we are weak, He becomes stronger
So rest yourself and cast all your cares on Him..."
And then Don Moen went on to say:
"The Bible tells us to cast all our cares on Him, because He cares for us. My friends, this is more than a promise - it's a COMMAND. So be at rest, because today God is working in ways that we cannot see. He never sleeps, He never slumbers!"
And that's what it means to cast all our anxieties on Him. Today. Thank God so much for His sheer goodness to us, His adopted children... "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" (1 John 3:1a)
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Yup, so something that I was reminded of today was that we, in the end, do really need to receive from God too. We can be serving Him so much, we can be doing so many things - e.g. studies, even QT too...
But I think sometimes, from time to time, we just simply need to cry out and just receive, with child-like faith, from the Father His sheer unmerited love - His grace. And I think that will help us really appreciate, just a little bit more, of His love that is beyond all reason, beyond all depth, beyond all understanding.
Haha... I write very long... so will end off here with this passage that Ps Jeff shared with us last Saturday:
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
AmeN! :D
YA
