It's not easy to admit, especially for my driven, multi-tasking, goal-oriented, just get it done personality. But the reality is...I get tired. Really tired. So tired that it gets in the way of all that needs to be done.
Sometimes I must realize I am human. Very human. It's also true that I may not have the energy I had when I was in my twenties. Trying to convince my life demands of that is another story. There's simply too much to do to be tired.
Ironically, one of my favorite Scripture passages mentions being tired and weary. How amazing to be reminded that it's actually permissable, understandable and helpful to experience "less than strong" days. If I had enough strength and stamina to sustain everything I want and need to do...I would never learn to lean on Him. My self-sufficiency would get in the way much too easily. My goals, lists and independence...would become obstacles for trusting, relying and realizing that in my weakness, He is strong. My focus would be much more on my life...than His leading.
Tonight, I thank God for allowing and teaching me that it's ok to be tired. He created me. He knows me better than I know myself. Yet He still loves me enough to hold me so that I may rest...and depend...on Him. What a beautiful gift to lean on His precious, everlasting arms.♥~thl
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40: 29>31
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