The Lord's Loving Kindnesses Never Cease
My baby has a fresh diaper, clean clothes, just finished a full session of nursing, and yet he is still crying. “You literally have nothing to worry about! We’ve taken care of everything. You are warm, fed, safe, loved…what could you possibly be upset about?”
But I recognize this cry, the one when he’s skipped his nap and is beyond tired but still refuses to sleep. And I know all this could be resolved if he’d stop fighting the closing eyelids and drooping head. If he would just rest.
I am baffled. And then it made me wonder- if I, in my finitude and humanity feel this way, how much more our heavenly Father, in his sovereignty and power.
The words of Jesus in Matthew 6 come to me: 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
The God who speaks universes into creation has promised to look after me. Why then do I let anxious thoughts take over? Why do I let fears control my emotions? How often is it because I have neglected to rest in Him?
Too often I let the noise of insecurities, responsibilities, tragedies, opinions, and expectations, keep me from resting in the Truth of who God is and who He says I am in Christ. I exchange His rest with anxious thoughts and lies, forgetting who holds my life in His hands. And so “this I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope, the Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, His compassions never fail, they are new every morning.” Lamentations 3:21-23. “Return oh my soul to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.” Psalm 116:7
But I recognize this cry, the one when he’s skipped his nap and is beyond tired but still refuses to sleep. And I know all this could be resolved if he’d stop fighting the closing eyelids and drooping head. If he would just rest.
I am baffled. And then it made me wonder- if I, in my finitude and humanity feel this way, how much more our heavenly Father, in his sovereignty and power.
The words of Jesus in Matthew 6 come to me: 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
The God who speaks universes into creation has promised to look after me. Why then do I let anxious thoughts take over? Why do I let fears control my emotions? How often is it because I have neglected to rest in Him?
Too often I let the noise of insecurities, responsibilities, tragedies, opinions, and expectations, keep me from resting in the Truth of who God is and who He says I am in Christ. I exchange His rest with anxious thoughts and lies, forgetting who holds my life in His hands. And so “this I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope, the Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, His compassions never fail, they are new every morning.” Lamentations 3:21-23. “Return oh my soul to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.” Psalm 116:7
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