life management

frozen blue, originally uploaded by youngdoo.

I came across this quote on Jessika's blog, and so I'm stealing it (gasp!) so that you too can be overcome by the wonderfulness of it.

"As you leave the whole burden of your sin, and rest upon the finished work of Christ, so leave the whole burden of your life and service, and rest upon the present in-working of the Holy Spirit.

Give yourself up, morning by morning, to be led by the Holy Spirit and go forward praising and at rest, leaving Him to manage you and your day. Cultivate the habit, all through the day, of joyfully depending upon, and obeying Him, expecting Him to guide, to enlighten, to reprove, to teach, to use, and to do in and with you what He wills.

Count upon His working as a fact, altogether apart from sight and feeling. Only let us believe in and obey the Holy Spirit as the Ruler of our lives, and cease from the burden from trying to manage ourselves, then the fruit of the Spirit appears in us, as He wills, to the glory of God!"

- from the fly leaf of Harold Wildish's bible