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Jesus said, "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man (or woman), it flies about in waterless places seeking rest." It occurred to me that seeking rest is actually a universal phenomenon. We all seek rest. Whether we are obedient or disobedient, clean or unclean, holy or evil, we seek rest. The question is: are we going to enter into HIS rest or are we going to continue to try and find our own rest, apart from Him?

I daresay you can find rest in your situation. God is that good, and wise, and powerful. Don't be tricked into thinking that rest can only be found in a different situation. You will never find rest that way. You will run and run and run. Don't look at all the problems around you. Just repent, and turn, and obey in your present reality. God will flood your reality with Himself. He is that powerful.

Your spouse left the LCs, seeking rest, and couldn't find it, and now is back in, and I daresay he still can't find rest. But he consoles himself by saying that this is the best he can do, here on this earth.... he's conditioned to think that the LC is "God's best", even if a little voice is nagging him. So he just keeps repeating the LC mantra of the week (HWFMR etc) and hopes the little voice will go away.

If you can find rest, and peace, and joy, and love, and light in your situation that will be the strongest testimony not only to him and the families you touch, but to all creation. God put you there, simply to testify of the rest found in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Just some thoughts from a pilgrim along the way.