Why is it so easy to become downhearted?
I think this happens to me because I too easily become a 'do-er' and not a 'be-er.'
Doing is great, of course. We were made to do, to create, to work, to make. But we were also made to be--in Him.
"In" is actually one of the most difficult words for speakers of foreign languages to understand, because in English, "in" holds several shades of meaning. In can mean physically inside or geographically near ("I'm inside the house," or "I'm in Atlanta.").
It can also take on a metaphysical, emotional or spiritual meaning. We say "She's in love with him" and "They're in a lot of trouble." It carries more of an abstract, within-the-realm-of significance.
Funny, isn't it? Jesus has a realm, and it happens to be the universe and everything else that may or may not (yet) exist. And it is He Himself. Jesus has a way that He wants things to be in His realm, and that Way is His Kingdom, the Way of all things made new, the Way of Redemption.
No wonder He tells me to be in Him, within the realm of who He is and what His way signifies (Redemption). When I am doing too much, I cannot see His realm--or live within it--very well at all, so of course discouragement comes with a Capital D.
So today, and hopefully tomorrow, I will focus more on being and less on doing. That is the "in" more complex than I can comprehend and yet so simple a little girl could understand it.
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