“Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest”. (Matthew 11:28). God intends for us
to live a well-rounded life in Christ Jesus; but there are times when that life
is attacked from the outside. Then we tend to fall back into self-examination,
a habit that we thought was gone. Self-awareness is the first thing that will
upset the completeness of our life in God, and self-awareness continually
produces a sense of struggling and turmoil in our lives. Self-awareness is not
sin, and it can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped
into a totally new set of circumstances. Yet it is never God’s will that we
should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs
our rest in Him must be rectified at once, and it is not rectified by being
ignored but only by coming to Jesus Christ. If we will come to Him, asking Him
to produce Christ-awareness in us, He will always do it, until we fully learn
to abide in Him.
Never
allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to
remain in your life without facing it. Beware of allowing the influence of your
friends or your circumstances to divide your life. This only serves to sap your
strength and slow your spiritual growth. Beware of anything that can split your
oneness with Him, causing you to see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is
as important as staying right spiritually. And the only solution is a very
simple one—“Come unto Me… .” The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of
our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words. Yet in every
detail of our lives where we are found not to be real, we would rather dispute
the findings than come to Jesus.
