Resisting Rest

The following quote succinctly describes the disease that many of us have.

“I resisted rest, fearing that if I stopped, I would fail – fail to earn “A”s, to earn enough money, to earn approval from friends and professors, to keep in shape…  to please God.  As hard as I worked, I was haunted by a deep, deep sense that I was never good enough and could never measure up to God’s standard for me.  I knew in my head that my relationship with God relies more on His faithfulness than mine, but I was so fearful of spiritual complacency that I could not rest in His grace.  I appended a string of “ifs” to “My grace is sufficient for you.” -Amanda Holm from the TEDS Graduate Scrawl

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Our souls resist rest.  We cling to our futile efforts.

Rom 7:24-25  What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?  Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!