Peace to a Restless Heart
Thursday, May 22, 2014 Posted by Debbie Legg
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It wasn’t
fear I was feeling. It wasn’t doubt. It was restlessness, unsettledness.
The limited
window of time to finish my project was quickly closing. The thought of having
to wait nine months before I would have time to really work on it again made me
almost nauseous.
Then I read,
“Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Hear Me saying, Peace, be still to your restless heart.”*
“Peace, be
still? That’s familiar.” I found the reference in Mark, Chapter 4.
They awoke Him and said to Him,
“Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” Then He arose
and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind
ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, “Why
are you so fearful? How is it
that you have no faith?” (38-40 NKJV)
That was it.
That was what I was feeling. “Jesus, do You not care that my dream is dying?”
For a long
while I wrestled with the wind and waves, the fear and lack of faith I finally admitted.
And I gave
in. “I’m trying to hear You saying ‘Peace, be still’ to my restless heart, but
all I want to do is sob. Please, heal my restless heart and bring peace.”
Then I felt,
“There. Was that so hard?”
I was
surprised. “No. But it still feels restless.”
“But it’s
not.”
The faith came
first. The peace came later.
But come it
did.
*(Sarah
Young, Jesus Calling, April 20)
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