The other day I met T at her beautiful home. She stays in a fabulous penthouse with ecletic furnishings. The walls were embedded with seashells, the sofas were plush sofas with soft fur drapes. The hanging lights were unique as they had veils over them. She obviously spent a lot of time making her home beautiful and elegant.
On the cabinets were photos of her children and her husband whom she loved very much. Yet sadly her home was an empty shell. She told me that she worked very hard to make her house a lovely home but her husband rarely came home and her daughters would go out for days without telling her where they going. She broke down and cried even while sharing about her family. Here was a lady who truly desired to build a family but was completely unappreciated by the very ones she loved.
There and then the Lord told me to tell her "Maybe its time to stop working but start resting"! I shared with her Ps 127:1 "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted". I told her that unless she surrendered her family to Jesus her efforts to bring them home while be wasted. I told her to find rest from her hard work in God. Then Heb 4 came to me and I shared from Heb 4:9-10 and 14-16 how we can enter into the rest from our labors. "For all who have entered into God's rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world." v 9. Its time to stop working out things with our own strength but to start surrendering them to the Lord, be they relationships, work, careers, businesses, ministries, our children, our husbands.....
"So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most" v16
This is the way to rest from our struggles, our battles, our trials and our temptations, the way is through coming to the God in prayer! Simple but profound. It is an act of faith. "So then since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe" v14. I told her to surrender her husband and daughters to the Lord and let God take over the restoration/building of her relationships with them. I told her to stop worrying but to start asking the Lord for help!
Later after sharing with her the gospel, T prayed the sinner's prayer to accept Jesus into her heart.
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