Learning to Rest In the Lord
Many churches teach the great commission for Christian's young and old is Matthew 28: 19-20 - “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” The secret to the Christian life is to first learn how to sit/rest in the Lord! Christians are admonished to "GO" and "DO" but even the apostles had to learn to wait and rest upon the Lord before they did anything for God. They waited for the coming of the Holy Spirit to descend upon them, to empower them to be able to be a vessel to have the Lord serve through them. We no longer need to wait upon the release of the Holy Spirit because since this first outpouring He is being continually outpoured to believers, but we must learn to rest in God. We must rest our entire weight upon God, just as if we are sitting in a chair and