Rest

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord
hath dealt bountifully with thee. 
Psalm 116:7

In my last journal entry I wrote about going back to work after being on a two week medical restriction...

And I want to write a little more on this.

Today I was thinking about the goodness of God and how He always knows what's best for me. You see, even though I've just been through a time of intense pain, I was also able to get lots of much needed physical rest. Rest, I must confess, is something that I neglect. I don't get enough of it and I end up paying a steep price for my lack of self-discipline. I have a chronic inability to allow myself sufficient periods of mental and physical recuperation.

Frankly, I'm one of those stubborn and restless sheep whom the Shepherd, in order to keep him from wandering, has to knock his legs out of joint, or even break it, in order to slow that lamb down and get him to remain still.

I'm laughing to myself as I write this because at the present moment Jesus is doing this to me. "Rest" has been a hard lesson for me to learn. Amen!

D.B.