"Rest" | Eileen Walker
Anxiety is more than common in this day and age. Worry has consumed my generation.
I experienced anxiety for the first time during my junior year of high school. I was so afraid that I was in disobedience to God. I felt like I couldn’t discern His voice and I wasn’t in His will. I was so worried to mess up God’s plans for my life!
However, the one thing I could hear was His still, small voice telling me to “rest.” Rest in His love and in His ability to accomplish His will in my life. That was the sweetest thing to hear, yet hard to do! It felt so wrong and backwards to me. I felt like I had to do, work, and strive. But God was teaching me trust on a whole new level. “I’m resting in Your love for me, I’m resting in Your sovereignty.”
I had written those lyrics years before. I didn’t really know what I was singing then, but it turns out the Lord was prophesying through me for when I would need those words.
Time passed and while I was learning about His kindness, character, and peaceful voice, I rediscovered that line and decided I would make it into a song. I wrote the verse, but it wasn’t until my mom walked in to tell me a friend from school had died that the chorus flowed out: “I don’t have to worry, I don’t have to fear, because I know who You are, I know Your father’s heart, I don’t have to worry, I don’t have to fear, because You said You are able, You said You are near.”
This has become an anthem for me, and I pray it can be for many across the world as well.
Let us trust and rest in the goodness… and good nature… of our God.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
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