Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus
Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never
allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think
of every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as
something to fight against, not as something you should allow to remain.
Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your
self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all. Beware
of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly but surely
it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. Don’t allow yourself
to say, “Well, they have just misunderstood me, and this is something
over which they should be apologizing to me; I’m sure I must have this
cleared up with them already.” Learn to leave others alone regarding
this. Simply ask the Lord to give you Christ-awareness, and He will
steady you until your completeness in Him is absolute.
A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of
my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person
who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the will
of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even
slightly from the will of God, we begin to ask, “Lord, what is your
will?” A child of God never prays to be made aware of the fact that God
answers prayer, because he is so restfully certain that God always
answers prayer.
If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own
commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness
tremendously. Jesus says, “Come to Me . . . and I will give you rest,”
that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness.
Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest— the rest of the completion of
activity in our lives that is never aware of itself.
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