412.
That’s the number of days I’ve been out of the country since July 11, 2011.
I traveled the world,
I saw things that changed me.
I slept on the ground, in beds, airports, buses, trains, tents.
In those 412 days, I have set foot in 22 countries.
Insane.
I am tired.
To say the very least.
Some days it takes everything in me to even crawl out of bed.
Some days I just want to be a normal person.
Hebrews 4 talks about entering into rest.
A rest that is eternal.
A rest that can only be obtained from Him.
When God talks about rest, He doesn’t mean spending a day in bed, doing whatever my heart so desires.
Rest is not really about resting at all.
It’s about dragging my weary body to the throne and crawling into His lap.
It’s about breathing Him in and letting Him fill me up.
God is teaching me that even when I feel like staying in bed all day,
He can be my rest.
I can go to ministry all day long and find rest there because I need to find it in Him.
Yes, I am weary.
Yes, some days I do need every bit of strength to crawl out of bed.
But He is all I need.
And that’s something that I really need to remember.
