Why Is Relaxing So Hard?

Ray and I are enjoying some down time with friends at Hilton Head. I am having the hardest time disconnecting from the internet, blog, Facebook and other electronic media.
I have people who will repost the blog, but I did not get them all written before I left.
I have resisted checking on my job electronically because it will ping my "fix-it" gene. So that is progress.
Where does drivenness and performance come from? Who told me that I have to accomplish something every day or I have no right to take up space on planet earth?
These are lies from the enemy.
Where has Sabbath rest gone?
Today and tomorrow I am purposing to rest in Him.
Hebrews 4 has been working on my heart for over 30 years. Ever lost a book and been so happy to find it again? That is my relationship with Hebrews 4.

¹¹ Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall

after the same example of unbelief.

¹² For the word of God is quick,

and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,

piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,

and of the joints and marrow,

and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

¹³ Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:

but all things are naked and opened

unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

¹⁴ Seeing then that we have a great high priest,

 that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,

 let us hold fast our profession.

¹⁵ For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched

 with the feeling of our infirmities;

but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

¹⁶ Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,

that we may obtain mercy,

 and find grace to help in time of need.

 

I always have found "labour to enter into that rest" an oxymoron. However it simply means do our best for if we don't we are in disobedience to God and we will fail.

Do you have areas in your life that are working out as you thought they would? Perhaps it is because you are not resting and reading the guidebook. (The Bible.) I have wasted years with that get 'er done mentality. If I "get 'er done" ahead of God's timing or even His place, it is as dung. Talk about spinning your wheels.

How much better to know His ways are higher than mine and to follow Him.