Hey all,
Remember when you were a kid playing games and when you wanted it to stop.............you just yelled......."Time out!" It was like the law. The game stopped. You got a chance to catch your breath, or recover from an injury, or go to the bathroom, or whatever. It just stopped. The universal and understood statement of "Time Out!"............would stop time. And almost every time.......it was honored. If you called it...........it was so. Man that was great wasn't it?
Don't you wish it was that way now?
Unfortunately, there is no "Time Out" in Life. We cannot ever shut it off. Some days wouldn't it be great to just yell...."Time Out!".....and have time stand still. Time to catch our breath. Time to recover. Time to just.....be still. Find rest for our soul.
So what do we do then?
Actually.......we can find the rest we long for. It is available. But we have to actually walk through life to get it. We have to make the choice. We have to ask for the right way.....the good way........and then walk in it. Walk in it. Not call "Time Out".....but actually walk. Move forward.
Check out Jeremiah 6:16.
"Thus says the LORD:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
The Lord calls us to first stand at the roads (Life) and look. Stand still long enough to take life in. Then to ask the right way (through HIM)...............and then to walk. To seek the good way (through HIM). Then walk in it. And we will find "rest for our souls". Our life version of "Time Out". The rest we seek. It is available. Through HIM. Through Jesus.
But check out the last verse......."But they said...we will not walk in it". There is the choice. We have to choose to walk in it. If we don't walk with HIM......there will be no rest. No "Time Out". No life.
I don't know about you............ but I am gonna keep walking.
Are you?
Strength and Honor,
-S
Remember when you were a kid playing games and when you wanted it to stop.............you just yelled......."Time out!" It was like the law. The game stopped. You got a chance to catch your breath, or recover from an injury, or go to the bathroom, or whatever. It just stopped. The universal and understood statement of "Time Out!"............would stop time. And almost every time.......it was honored. If you called it...........it was so. Man that was great wasn't it?
Don't you wish it was that way now?
Unfortunately, there is no "Time Out" in Life. We cannot ever shut it off. Some days wouldn't it be great to just yell...."Time Out!".....and have time stand still. Time to catch our breath. Time to recover. Time to just.....be still. Find rest for our soul.
So what do we do then?
Actually.......we can find the rest we long for. It is available. But we have to actually walk through life to get it. We have to make the choice. We have to ask for the right way.....the good way........and then walk in it. Walk in it. Not call "Time Out".....but actually walk. Move forward.
Check out Jeremiah 6:16.
"Thus says the LORD:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
The Lord calls us to first stand at the roads (Life) and look. Stand still long enough to take life in. Then to ask the right way (through HIM)...............and then to walk. To seek the good way (through HIM). Then walk in it. And we will find "rest for our souls". Our life version of "Time Out". The rest we seek. It is available. Through HIM. Through Jesus.
But check out the last verse......."But they said...we will not walk in it". There is the choice. We have to choose to walk in it. If we don't walk with HIM......there will be no rest. No "Time Out". No life.
I don't know about you............ but I am gonna keep walking.
Are you?
Strength and Honor,
-S
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