I would like to talk to you today
about resting. A music teacher
commented. “I listen all day to erratic
playing and off-key notes. What bothers
me most are the ‘rests ‘ which are ignored.”
Apparently, children cannot think of rests
as a part of music. If their fingers are not
working, they feel that nothing is happening.
We must not make the same mistake in our
Christian living. The frantic activity, the
hurried pace, the tenseness of our modern
living are sure signs that as while we are
working away at our little tunes, we are not
counting faithfully when the music calls for a
rest.
We have so much to do. We cannot stop for a
moment! And music goes out of our life.
Surely, we could never do all that Christ did,
yet our Lord found time in His life for
extended periods of prayer, for blessing
children and for attending a wedding feast.
He touched and blessed others in formal
teaching and daily encounters. But he did
not hurry.
He balanced the command, “Go and teach”
by saying, “Come apart and rest. Go work in
my vineyard” has his companion words,
“Abide in me.” Without the rests to observe,
life has no harmony for the believer. When
sickness or accident removes us from useful
work, remember the importance of rests.
Follow the conductor. Play the rest with
humility and balance. The parts that are
unimportant will fall into place and allow
praise and harmony to flow in our life.
Father, teach me to play the rests in my life
today.
Amen.
No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. John 15:13-15 CSB
