a peace and a quiet

you know, through Christ, we are capable of accessing an outpouring of refresh-ness. how abundantly peaceful this must be?!- to always be allowed to fall at the feet of our Jesus and be refreshed. i got a glimpse of an overwhelming feeling of being refreshed just in a worldly sense this morning at work- but oh the exasperating joy one must feel to be refreshed in a spiritual sense. there is a pattern we find ourselves in: to 'checkout' of everything crazy going on around our fast-paced lives, and 'check-in' to the element of God. not that this should be an either or thing- cause it most definately shouldn't. i just think sometimes, if we're not careful in our prioritizing, we make it an either or thing. i have a tendency sometime to feel like i can only come to God when i have nothing on the plate in front of me. but, this is so far from true, because we worship a God who longs for us to come to his feet as we are. crazy as life may be. he wants us to come even more in those times, because only he has the power to refresh.

acts 3:19 'therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.'

he's not asking for much... he's just asking that we come- as we are- sinful and wicked. all we have to do is come. and he will take care of the rest. praise Christ. wow.

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