Archbishop Charles Jones: The Resting Place of God
Grace and Peace,
I am at Moravian Falls on a prayer retreat and my time here has been very fruitful. The landscape here is very beautiful, and there are apple trees everywhere. I am able to walk around and pick apples off of the trees. They are wonderful!!
I have been thinking about Is. 66:1-3. This is what the Lord says :
Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where is the dwelling place you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being? This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.
It is the broken who become the resting place of God. Only the repentant enter into His Rest. One of the Beatitudes says,
Blessed are the meek (the broken; the contrite; the repentant) for they shall inherit the earth.
The broken alone can walk in faith and therefore it is the broken who experience union with the resting and merry heart of God.
When we enjoy His Rest the whole world (earth) becomes a source of delight. It is wonderful to be in a place like Moravian Falls. I would have to say this is one of the most anointed places I have ever been. And I have had several remarkable encounters with with the Lord and His Messengers while here.
I hope, God willing, to come back many times but we don’t have to come to a place like this to get away and find rest under an open Heaven. To the broken our very lives become a place of rest, and we can get away at any moment as we live
daily peacefully rejoicing under an Open Heaven. May we all live our lives in union with merry heart of God.
“Always”
In Christ,
+Chuck
