take a break.

It’s okay to take a break. Here I say it, IT IS OK TO TAKE A BREAK. Not only is it ok to take a break, but it is ok to NEED a break. I have been in a season here recently where I have taken a step back from some things because I want to make sure that what I am doing is done from a pure heart and I just came to realize I was burning myself out. It wasn’t necessarily that the task was majorly challenging because in all reality I really enjoyed doing the things I took a step back from. I just had some things I needed to deal with within my heart and mind. Why am I telling you all of this? Because when my mom proposed the idea of me pausing for a season and getting inner healing in my heart and mind, it absolutely freaked me out. I pushed it off. I just kept doing it. Until I hit my breaking point. I couldn’t do it anymore. The warfare was so strong within my mind I couldn’t ever wake up without feeling weighed down by numerous thoughts. I had questions unanswered but I was too scared to face them. I also am someone that if I am not careful, I can EASILY find my worth and value in how productive I can be or what I get done. So I lay it down. It was the hardest thing because to other people, from the outside it probably seemed like I had given up, but laying it down, was me showing the enemy I will fight. How was laying it down showing the enemy I was fighting? Because it was surrender to the one who is already victorious. And I wanna encourage you to take a break if you need it. God RESTED on the 7th day and created the sabbath to be a day of rest and restoration for our bodies for the week’s worth of work ahead of us. Your value is not found in how much work you can accomplish. It isn’t found in how much money you have in the bank account. It isn’t even found in the job or career you have. If we ever let our worth be defined by our circumstances, we will never walk in the fullness of our identity in christ. So learn it from me, take a break. Be quiet for a couple of weeks or months so that you can get the part of you that needs to be healed you can get healed. I so often and even at times now have to find myself casting down the thought that I was pleasing the lord by absolutely killing myself to serve others while I was suffocating. You know, Smiling while being there with them, then crying in my car because I just couldn’t calm my mind down. God wants you whole, healed, and fully filled with him. He doesn’t want you halfway fixed, he wants you made whole. And that resting season looks different for everyone, but trust me, the best thing you can do for a business, career, job, etc. is to lay it down before the lord and go on the journey of letting him heal you and work on you. He loves you so much and wants you to find your true validation and worth in Him because He knows that nothing of this world can ever satisfy you fully, it will never be your true identity. Finding your identity in the world leads you to a place of wrestling. Wrestling with thoughts, wrestling with your faith, wrestling with it all because you are in this world but not of it. Only God can fully heal the things within your heart that hurt, only God can fully set your mind free, and only God can break that bondage of the enemy off of you. What I love the most is that resting in God is a form of worship to God, because we are showing that we fully trust him and we rest in him. Not in the world, but in Him. So take my advice today, if you feel you are at a place where you are pouring out but you feel empty inside, take the rest. Go and meet with the one who can truly refresh and satisfy your soul and fight your battle from your royal authority and hidden under the shadow of the Holy Spirit because he is the one who is truly victorious. Rest in him today and know your value and worth aren’t found in what you have done or how productive you are, but your worth and value are found in Jesus and Jesus alone. find your worth and life in Jesus.

-grace 🙂

“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”

Matthew 16:25 (NIV)