a poem
I’m not really into poetry – sometimes it hits the mark though
“How about
A PRAYER?”
Meister Eckhart offers
“Or FASTING
Or GOODWORKS
Or …”
“No, no!”
God interupts
What I really like is
REST
(Richard Skinner, Echoes of Eckhart, Cairns, 1998)
I found this amongst some papers on spiritual direction. And it stopped me in my tracks.
It’s so easy to become a striving-Christian – but it takes grace to enter His rest. I once was given a prophetic word that I was running so fast that God couldn’t keep up. I don’t think it was theologically sound – and at the time it also stung a bit a lot- but today (years later) I think I see what the person meant. Certainly I’ve come to value sitting in His presence (though it’s still a struggle to stay there)
Over at into the Bible we’re looking at Hebrews right now. Heb 4 is a bit of an ouch really.
God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God … so let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. (Heb 4: 6, 11)
I’m not sure I understand it fully (I am finding Hebrews a tricky book to study even with the wonderful help of Tom Wright) but God’s warnings are always to be taken seriously.
What I do get from this is that I need to trust God more and imitate Him more … if he needed (or chose) rest on the seventh day it’s really high time I followed suit.
