Take Time in God’s Presence

We who believe can enter his rest. (Hebrews 4:3 NLT)

I was looking in Webster’s dictionary for the difference in meaning between the words “repose” and “compose.” Webster’s says that “compose” means “to bring the body or mind to a condition of repose, calmness and quietness.” And “repose,” Webster’s says, is “to be at peace; in a dignified calmness.”

That sounds awfully good, but how are you going to get there? I know the remedy for that, but how are people going to find that repose when they’re on the run and in a rush all the time? I don’t think they can!

Such a remedy will take all that strain out of your spirit and that awful unrest from your mind and the tension from your body. When I get alone to take time in God’s presence, when I read His Word and search the Scriptures, and search my own heart and spend time in prayer, there is restored the peace that He promises, the sweet rest that He gives, and the repose that only God can give.

The pressures today are many, and some people have no other recourse. But the Christian does; the Christian has quiet time, the time of meditation before God where they can find rest. The Christian has that which can cool the fever of this awful rush.

Prayer makes available the power of God that can take all the strain out of life. Won’t you think about it? Won’t you go to the Lord? —V.B. Berg [1]

Take time to be holy, the world rushes on;

Spend much time in secret, with Jesus alone.

By looking to Jesus, like Him thou shalt be. —William D. Longstaff

[1] Anchor Compose and Repose —Enter into Rest