Resting and Reaching

Sunday’s message on being in Christ reminded us of a powerful truth: our place in God’s family should cause neither arrogance nor insecurity. What we have in Christ is both comforting and humbling.

There’s a beautiful balance to being “in Christ”. Scripture often illustrates parallel truths of the Christian life. There is a divine paradox that the believer lives out every day. It is a life of pursuit; it is a life of rest.

The spiritual anxiety that Bro. Landon described on Sunday is rooted in this tension.

We are growing up in the new life we have been given, and the growing pains of that maturing process are keenly felt. At the same time, there is a peace in the standing we already have.

We pursue, and yet have attained.

We are both in a battle, and at peace.

It’s effort without obsession.

It’s dependence without laziness.

It’s responsibility and rest.

How easily we can fall into the trap of embracing one and abandoning the other. All pursuit and no rest leaves us self reliant and exhausted. All rest and no pursuit leaves us spiritually stagnant and careless.

This week, may it be both our steady anchor and our urge onward that we are in Christ. He holds us steady. And resting in Him, we are called to reach for more.