May 17

“It is impossible for us to conceive being glad when our hearts are breaking, but God has said it....It is a waste of time to try to reach it.  We can only receive.  The river is there.”  Eugenia Price, S.P.S., 5/17

Eugenia is referring to Psalm 46:4: “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.”  I am writing this several days after the date on the page.  I’m wondering if the reason my heart is breaking right now is because I neglected to take the time to write the last two days’ devotionals.  I took my eyes off Jesus for just a moment in my busyness and I got lost.  Now I’m trying to “reach” Jesus again, but Eugenia is reminding me that is a waste of time.  All I can do is receive Him.  The river that flows from His heart to mine is within me already.  I need only to lie down in the green pasture by the still waters and receive.  I know that my heart is breaking because I haven’t done this.  And I know that God has allowed this trouble into my life to show me this.  And what is so blessed about my trouble is that it will cease to be a trouble for me if I will just lie down and receive.

“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.  He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”  Psalm 23:1-3