Greener Than Dollars…

"He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters."

Psalms 23:2 NKJV

Have you ever had been to made to rest. Not rest as we know it. But truly rest through an experience that you didn't count on having.

For me its was a Stroke. I was in very good shape...especially for my size 6'5" and 290 pounds. Yet that did not mean a thing to God. You see "when it is your time" the clock stops. All you think that matters stops. Everything in your life at that point ceases to exist. Its just you and him at that point. All of your stuff in life does not matter to him.

But being in his presence meant I was dead...but I had made it to that place that I had heard about…"Heaven". I did not feel any pain. I had no discomfort. Just a “JOY" in my heart and "PEACE OF MIND". Yet he sent me back here because he wanted to. And that is how God got my "full attention". To let the world know he can take us at any time.

And in your life you had to "rest" even when you did not want to. Think about that…something happened in your life that you were not expecting. For those life-changing moments we have "respect and acknowledgement". The thought of "lying by still waters" represents a snapshot into our lives of that time. We cannot make another dollar. Rushing around ceases. Doing too many things at one time stops. Everything and every one ceases to exist.

Its in the "still water” we truly hear…so that he can "show us" as we rest.