No More Doing

We all fall into it, that trap of doing. It’s true. Where it’s all up to us once again. And everything becomes about us. Our responsibility. Our duty. Our right. To be lord of our one life. Once again.

We all do it. We stumble and we fall again and again, away from Christ.

It happens. When you start carrying the shame for your actions, and the guilt for your thoughts, because ‘it is all your fault’. When you start making the calls and calling the shots, because ‘it is all up to you’. When you start shouldering the responsibility and carrying the load to do and to act and to say the right thing, because ‘it is what you are called to do’. It happens. You get stuck on the doing. You do. And you fall away from Christ.

Oh how easily we get stuck there, on the doing, asking for forgiveness, grabbing for control, striving for any sort of peace, all on our own. And it’s where we will stay, where we will live, when we fall away from Christ and choose to remain there.

But we do not have to stay there, stuck on our doing. No. For Christ simply calls, again and again, He calls, “Come to Me, I have forgiven you. Trust in Me, I am in control. Hope in Me, I am enough for you.”

Yes, Christ simply calls, for you, because it is nothing from you that He wants. Nothing at all from you, only you. Nothing but you. Only you, with nothing at all to give but you.

It’s where nothing comes inbetween you and Christ. Where nothing hinders your relationship with Him. Where all you can do is cling so tightly to Him, because you do not want to fall again. And you find there is nothing inbetween you and Him.

It’s what must be! Nothing is what must be! Absolutely nothing inbetween you and Him. No service. No wild emotion. No good reponsibility. No guilty conscience. No proud and noble deed. No more doing. Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing inbetween you and Him.

And that’s where life is found! In Christ alone.

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"You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! Yet you refuse to come to me so that I can give you this eternal life." - John 5:39-40

“And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” - John 17:3