Labor to enter rest
"Matthew 11:28; Hebrews 4:10-11 - 'Labor' in Hebrews 4:11 means 'make haste.' Is the word used to remind us that we shall not drift into rest? There must be the will to enter in. Perhaps what demands most will power is the resolution to cease from our own works, our own busyness and to stay our minds upon our God.
"We pray and the answer is not what we expect. It seems an answer of loss, and sometimes loss upon loss. We must cease from our own thoughts about it and believe that what He has allowed is the perfect answer for the moment. As we believe and accept, we enter into rest and the strain passes into peace.
"This covers all life: the illness of those we love, mental or spiritual suffering, the unexplained, everything. Let us not lose one hour in needless ineffective distress. Let us hasten by an act of the will to come to Him for rest."
- Amy Carmichael, Whispers of His Power, pp. 61, 62
"We pray and the answer is not what we expect. It seems an answer of loss, and sometimes loss upon loss. We must cease from our own thoughts about it and believe that what He has allowed is the perfect answer for the moment. As we believe and accept, we enter into rest and the strain passes into peace.
"This covers all life: the illness of those we love, mental or spiritual suffering, the unexplained, everything. Let us not lose one hour in needless ineffective distress. Let us hasten by an act of the will to come to Him for rest."
- Amy Carmichael, Whispers of His Power, pp. 61, 62
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