In what ways are you busier than God requires?
"Father, I know how often I am carried away by too many concerns and demands and projects. I have felt the violence to my soul. Deliver me from this whirlwind around me and in me. Heal my tired and weary spirit, allowing the wisdom that comes from rest in You to flow deep within me ... In Jesus' name I pray - Amen."
I am reminded today of the cadence of Christ in life; and the Authority of His Father over His life in connection with the here and now. We tend to put the cart before the horse, many times, and serve God out on our own ahead of Him; yet that is a field bearing no fruit. We tend to think we must be a living sacrifice by doing what we reason to be goodness, and again this has no spiritual value. Only the commission of God in His timing thru the Holy Spirits guise will we be spiritually fruitful. And yet when we slow our cadence down to His, and operate thru His spiritual guise and obey Him immediately, we will bear much fruit as we remain in Him. We tend to move as an impulse comes and call it spiritual.
But we must check all impulses by this test- have we received it thru our spirit from the Holy Spirit and does this glorify Jesus, or does it only glorify ourselves? Does it bring to remembrance something Jesus said - that is, does it connect itself with the Word of God - or is it beginning to turn us inside and make us seek great things for ourselves? That is where the snare comes.
Lettuce remain in His rest - and in the providence of His care and commission. And seek to obey immediately His commission at the time He gives it. May each and everyone of us receive the fullness of Christ in and thru righteousness in all of its wonder and grace and power! To this I pray in Jesus name - Amen.