So here we are — rounding up the first full term of school, finishing up the first quarter of a brand new year, gearing up for the joyful time away ahead, and Kathy Troccoli—- she’s singing this song, beckoning me to pause and praise, inviting me to stop and drink, comforting me to trust and rest.
I want to dance with her, sway along slowly to her song.
I want to sing those melodies of faith and dance every blues away.
I’m a slow learner and I’m drinking full this revelation afresh. It’s a full cycle I learn; this cycle of trust and rest.
And here I am, saying Yes to the note of the satisfied soul.
“Be still, and know that I am God.
(Psalm 46:10)
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
Work and rest – aren’t they two sides of the same coin?
Life, isn’t it best lived when you drink up and pour out, because it’s only filled when it’s emptied out to God to then is filled back up by Him?
I’m learning it steady – it is a meeting with God to trust, and giving away to others in rest.
This is our true work – to simply trust in God.
Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”
John 6:29
To trust Him enough to know that He will fulfill His word, to believe enough that He will be true in who He says He is, to commit ourselves simply because He says that He is able to do what He says He will do.
This complete circle of trusting and resting, of abiding and working – is the way to truly bear much fruit and produce the joy our hearts desire.
And in seeing Him, that things around us become crystal clear.
All these mundanities of life… all these everyday moments of our everyday life, we can sense Him and see Him. He holds a fascination our eyes can’t deny, and offers us a destiny our minds can’t comprehend.
He is alive today, in our life, in our home, in our work, in our broken world, and our messy hearts. And when we invite Him in, we find a complete rest for our soul — in all things imperfect and unfinished.