True Rest

Major W. Ian Thomas

Christian rest is not inactivity. Christian rest is rest because He carries the load... It is passivity only if you consider God to be passive, and only if you consider the Lord Jesus to be a weakling and incapable of running His own kingdom as King, and that of course is blasphemous. If I think that by stepping aside and letting God handle it, nothing is going to happen, this only indicates that I do not really believe in God or in the competency of Jesus Christ. I am assuming that if it were not for folks like doing the work and keeping God in business, He would be in bad shape... Christ is in action, and you in your humanity are simply the clothes of His divine activity. This is the rest of faith. You relax, almost like a spectator, except that it is your hands with which He is at work, your lips with which He is speaking, your ears with which He hears the cry, and your heart with which he loves the lost.

This is what it looks like to truly live "incarnationally". All of Him. None of me. What could be more restful? - Tim