Fret buster #104

In whatever measure you fail to live without anxious care you are living beneath your privilege in Christ. Anxiety is a proof of doubt of either God’s ability or His willingness to care for you adequately.

Fretting over a trial delays the day when God can remove it. He knows all about it and designed it only for your enrichment and the perfecting of His work in you.

God has provided a place of rest for weary hearts which requires no years of waiting to attain, only the courage and faith to appropriate immediately.

God can give you rest in the struggle before the time comes for you to rest from the struggle.

-J. Elwin Wright
 
 

I lay my wants on Jesus;
all fullness dwells in Him;
He heals all my diseases,
He doth my soul redeem:
I lay my grief on Jesus,
my burdens and my cares;
He from them all releases,
He all my sorrows shares.
I rest my soul on Jesus,
this weary soul of mine;
His right hand me embraces,
I on His breast recline.
I love the Name of Jesus,
Immanuel, Christ, the Lord;
Like fragrance on the breezes,
His Name abroad is poured.

-Horatius Bonar, 1843 (His first hymn)

He never comes too late;
He knoweth what is best;
Vex not thyself in vain;
Until He cometh, rest.

-B.T.