A Dialogue with Jesus

Listen to me.

Ok, I’m here.

No you’re not. Stop trying to do that yourself. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Mt. 11:30)

What? Making 5 batches of cookies? Planning meals? Planning my life?

Yeah, my ways and my thoughts are much higher than yours (Isaiah 55:11)

Yeah.. I would feel more comfortable if I knew I’d be able to pay off my loans soon.

I knit you together in your mother’s womb. I know when you sit and stand, I know your thoughts (Ps 139)

I know, I love that psalm, but the worries are still there.

Before you even called to me, I answered you (Is 65:24). If I tell you to go, I’m going to provide. (Heb 11:8)

What about my own intelligent plan? It was a good one, everyone thought so.

Why are you more attached to your own plans than to me? Commit your way to me. (Ps 37:5)

Why don’t you just tell me that I’ll be married in a few years and people will think I’m successful?

Your competence is in me (2 Cor. 3:5), you need to trust that I have power to do what I have promised. (Rom 4:21)

But what about my comfort? Are you going to ask me before you wreck my plans?

Oh you have such little faith. Look at the birds in the air and the lilies in the field. Look at how I clothe and feed them! Are you not more valuable to me than they are? (Matt 6:25-34

Ok, I understand.. But I am really tired. I think I’m overworking myself.

My presence will go with you and I will give you rest (Exodus 33: 14)

Not even a nap? I could really use a nap.

Strengthen your feeble hands, steady your knees that give way (Is 35:3), Do not fear, for I am with you. I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. (Is 41:10)

I give up! What do you want me to do so badly that I can’t even take a nap?

I work in you every day to will and to act according to my good purpose. (Phil 2:13).

What purpose?

To spend yourself on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed. (Is. 58:10)

Well goodness, that’s really concrete. And did I mention.. Huge!

So am I. I fixed limits for the seas, I tell the dawn its place, I disperse the lightning and father the rain. (Job 38).

Hello! I am so tiny compared to that

But I am not. If you have faith, you can say to this mountain to throw itself into the sea, and it’ll happen. (Mt. 21:21)

Do you really think I’m ready for that?

Your treasure is me, and you are a clay jar, moldable and breakable, to show that the power you hold is not your own, but mine. (2 Cor. 4:7) I created you for dependence on me.

You know how much I like my independence..

I saved you with my grace for a purpose because I created you and I created works in advance for you to do. (Eph. 2:8-10). You are not your own, you were bought with a price. (1 Cor. 6:19)

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I love you, but sometimes, you are really selfish.

I want to follow you with my entire heart, without deviation. Give me an overflowing joy, a realization of what you’ve done for me, and make me someone who serves you willingly, without excuse.. (Ps 51: 10,12)

We have a lot of work to do.

That’s what I was afraid of..