trACker number426
The
e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track
11
January 2013
Dear God
Tracker
God-Tracking Is a Labour of
Rest
“But I am trying
to be born again,” Sue said to me as the bus rolled on toward the local Baptist
church we attended every other Sunday evening. These were the tough yet
exciting days of my police training. Every other Sunday, when we were not on
weekend pass, we were bussed from the training camp to a local church of our
choice. “How do mean, ‘trying to be
born again’,” I asked. ”You know,” Sue answered with note of frustration, “I’m
really working at trying to be on God’s side and to deal with life’s
difficulties. I try my hardest but somehow I’m just not getting it right with
God.”
Like so many of us, Sue was doing all she could do to
“get it right with God”. She’d had her fair share of difficulties and was
trying very hard to live a good life but, sadly Sue had been doing it all in
her own strength. After all when you commit to become a Christian there are so
many things to get right, aren’t there? It’s wearisome trying to be a
Christian. But didn’t Jesus once say, “Come to me, all you who are
weary and burdened, and I will give you rest?” And then he added that we should
be yoked with him. In other words, are we to come to him for rest but then also
labour with him? This is paradoxical: labour in rest.
Jesus himself
completed all the work for our salvation upon the cross as
he died and when he rose from the dead he set us free from sin and strife. Jesus
was sinless and yet he was tempted to sin. He laboured at remaining sinless
before God so that he would be sinless at the cross. When he died, Christ became
the Sabbath rest for all who call on his name. He completed all that was
required in order to earn God’s favour. You could say Jesus ticked all the
boxes on the application form for life. This means that he not only bore sin
but he laboured for righteousness, healing, joy, peace and blessing. Jesus set
us free from our efforts to “get it right with God” by becoming the “yes” and
“amen” to all of God’s promises to us. So if we are to work at anything then let
us work at resting in the labour of Christ.
God-tracking is
a labour of rest.
Every blessing
Dudley
It’s
all in the Book. Read more…
Matthew 11:28-19
Hebrews 2:17-18
2 Corinthians 1:18-21
Hebrews 4:8-11
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Verse of the Week
Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that
rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
Quote
of the Week
A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.
“So many of us are so busy doing God's work, we forget sometimes that
God is actually the One working.” --- Bonnie Ricks
Don’t
Give-up, Look-up!
Look-up and Fix Your Eyes On Jesus!
You
Are My Sabbath Rest
Pray
“My holy God I realise that I cannot work
at getting my life right with you. I realise that I can’t bring my own healing
or orchestrate my own success in life and that it is only you working in me
that brings right living. I’m sorry for my strife and accept the work of Christ
upon the cross in faith today. I come to you, Jesus, because I am weary and
burdened. I take up your effort to bring me into a place of blessing and trust
that you will give me rest from my difficulties. I let go of my human effort to
get things to work out right in my life and trust in your eternal supernatural
power to bring about healing, deliverance and victory. Jesus, today I confess
that you are my Sabbath rest. Amen.”
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