Whenever I sit down to think about what the Lord has been teaching me this week, there is one theme that keeps popping up in my heart: stillness. The truth is that in my humanity, my heart is often prone to restlessness.
I would love to be able to say that as soon as fear, anxiety, emotional triggers, and stress rear their heads in my heart that my absolute default is to go to the Lord and release it into His capable hands. But too often, I find myself doing anything and everything I can to get through it on my own and trying to be strong enough. Striving towards something I cannot do alone.
Does that sound familiar to you? If we are being honest, we all have heavy pain points in our hearts that we are trying so hard to unravel and overcome on our own. Some pain points are more tender than others. And we try to deal with it in our own strength and in our own way. Have you like me found yourself exhausted trying to carry the full weight of something you were never meant to carry alone?
If that's you today, I want to invite you to join me at the foot of the cross to lay it all down. To be still in the strength of the Lord. The truth is, we can be still and be at peace because while we will never be strong enough to endure the deep valleys on our own, we are not alone. We have our King Jesus who beacons us to come and lay our burdens down before Him and be still. He is more than able. He wants you to invite Him into your struggle and let him minister to and heal your heart. He will fight for you, you need only to be still.
