“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)
When will we ever get it through our heads
that apart from Jesus we are utterly powerless?
We keep trying to do it on our own, but we just keep “missing the mark”
(the definition of the Greek word for sin).
And we will continue to miss the mark until we surrender our
attempts to do it ourselves and submit to the power of Jesus to claim the
victory for us that we can never achieve for ourselves. We can’t, but he can. Lord Jesus, have mercy on us!
Lord
Jesus, maybe I keep failing because I keep trying to do it on my own. I am powerless to do anything but miss the mark
apart from you. Lord Jesus, have mercy
on me!
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (Exodus 20:8-11, ESV)
“Stop means stop. Stop worrying, stop spinning, stop striving, stop being anxious. Stop your mind from constantly working. Stop planning, stop strategizing, stop scheming, stop jockeying. Stop and find your rest in Me. Be still and know that I am God.”
