Devotion for Wednesday, July 15th - "A Restful Place"

Exodus 33:14 ". . . My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."

Vance Havner said, "We can take a vacation within if not one without. You need not seek rest in the mountains or by the sea if you do not have it in your heart. You cannot get away from it all if you carry it all with you." What a true statement!

The summer months of June, July, and August are also know as the great vacation months. If your family is anything like my family when you arrive home from a vacation you are more tired then you were before you left! People are always looking for rest. We try the vacation thing and that doesn't work. The most restful times for our family is when we just stay home for a couple of days and do nothing, but in the end we are still tired.

I am convinced that the key to finding rest is not in the ceasing from activity, but rather having our lives hid in Christ, and to learn as Paul did, whatsoever state we are in to be content with what ever is happening at the time.

Wouldn't it be amazing if you and I could find rest right now in the business of our day? We can, In the presence of God! Go there now and find the rest you have been longing for.