God Knows What We are Up Against
Finding God in the Daily
Come to me, all who
labor and are heavy laden.
Matthew 11:28
Life has a way of throwing curve balls at us that we can't quite square with reality. We chug on, doing our best with what we've been given.
LABOR
Labor seeks us where we live.
SPIRITUAL SEPARATION, where despair or pain causes distance from God, is common to humanity. The separation is temporary. Like when giving birth, the labor is intense, painful, absorbing but purposed. We accept the labor (for the most part) because we know the end result makes it worth the struggle.
Most labor is difficult, hard, sometimes punishing, sometimes lonely, sometimes more that we think we can bear, and often demanding of us a lot. Usually we don’t have much say or choice in the matter.
Labor requires effort. This is true in the spiritual realm. It is laborious and time consuming to work through our areas of struggle, pain, and past experiences.
Labor is
the daily struggle of life.
Labor is burden, self-effort, redundancy. The first thing I think of as it relates to labor
is being tired, when we're tired of striving, weary of life, and the endless circumstances of
life. At times, the labor defines its burden, hopelessness, discouragement.
This can be the result of pain and injustice. We know its unfairness, we may sense a lack of acknowledgement of our worth by those in our lives — family, co-workers, even those in our own church families, the ones who are abrupt, critical, disapproving, or angry with us.
There is a weariness with life. It is an empty feeling with a sense of running in place but getting nowhere, a sense of stagnation and loss. These are the threads that continually weave throughout our lives. There's always something.
God is a very present help in times of trouble.
God invites us to come to Him in our weariness. He is the Giver of rest, He is the Sustainer of life. He is our Hope and our Meet for all that bombards us and knocks us off kilter.
Dear Father in Heaven, You are the way, the truth, and the life, which means You are our way, truth, and life. Thank You for showing us the way and leading us to the truth of You. Amen
This can be the result of pain and injustice. We know its unfairness, we may sense a lack of acknowledgement of our worth by those in our lives — family, co-workers, even those in our own church families, the ones who are abrupt, critical, disapproving, or angry with us.
There is a weariness with life. It is an empty feeling with a sense of running in place but getting nowhere, a sense of stagnation and loss. These are the threads that continually weave throughout our lives. There's always something.
God is a very present help in times of trouble.
God invites us to come to Him in our weariness. He is the Giver of rest, He is the Sustainer of life. He is our Hope and our Meet for all that bombards us and knocks us off kilter.
Dear Father in Heaven, You are the way, the truth, and the life, which means You are our way, truth, and life. Thank You for showing us the way and leading us to the truth of You. Amen
To God be the Glory
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A Message of Life
Inspiration 53
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