“For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”  Have you ever really noticed the end of that verse?  We often quote it, but don’t often get past the first line. 

I am still sitting in rather speechless awe of God.  He has been doing some amazing things in my heart through a lot of different circumstances.  He has roused my heart in a greater way this year than ever before probably, to take a closer look at the heart of Christ.  He keeps confirming to me what He has been trying to teach my slow-learning heart.  That is the truth that His heart is full of compassion and love like we cannot fathom.  He has come to my heart in the quiet, convincing way that He always does, and gently told me that He wants to heal those old wounds that I buried without knowing it.  He has used so many people and circumstances to stir my heart and opened up the wells of tears that I had no idea were still deep inside my heart.  He released me from a spirit of fear that I carried with me in relationships … fear of hurting people, fear of losing relationships.  I didn’t know it was there.  He gave me freedom from a deep sense of failure that I didn’t know was there.  And the release has entered so many, many areas of my life that I still feel stunned some days.  It’s like having your heart put to rest in a new and beautiful way.  It’s got to be a little like Heaven. REST.  

I am so in awe of God.  I hope I will never lose the reverence I feel for Him.  His love is different than we often realize.  His love is the kind that quietly and emphatically reaches our hearts in a way that we cannot doubt Him.  His work is a thorough work that could never be manufactured by another.  His grace is overwhelming.  His gentleness compels us to love Him.  His words are quiet, and they come to us when our hearts are still before Him, waiting for Him, and even when they are weeping out the unknown issues within.  He causes us to turn away from ourselves and He speaks life into the ashes of our pain.  Where the light of His Spirit shines, the darkness must flee. 

 But it’s the way He comes that amazes me so much … People, we need to get a hold of God and let Him teach us how to love.  He is so personal.  How He loves each of us and understands us. 

Thank-you, Lord.  You’ve got yourself a servant for life, by Your Grace alone.  You have shown me how little I know my own heart … how little any of us know our own hearts.  Oh, God, let us walk humbly in your Presence.  Praise be to God.