Sleep can bring welcome relief from the worries of the day, especially when we leave our problems at the foot of the cross in prayer before closing our eyes and resting our minds. We can join the psalmist throughout the book of Psalm in his cry for mercy, his pleas that God will not forget him in his distresses, and in doing so is able to find peaceful rest each and every day.
But often times when we wake up, and after the grogginess wears off, the burdens we were carrying the day before come back and load us down again. That is why it is so important to go to Him each day, to renew what we know in our hearts to be true. For His mercies are new every morning and His grace is suffciant for each of our needs.
The devil will wait for us to slip up in our thinking. he watches us and is quick to place snares in front of us to trip us up....he tells us, "Oh you can skip your time in God's Word today...besides, you've had a quiet time three days in a row this week"...and we reason that, in our thinking....we say "yes, I have...surely I can skip a day" then we skip another day and before we realize, the week has gone by without spending time in God's Word renewing our minds.
The difference in our feelings and thinking is this: When troubles come our way and we are walking daily in God's Word....we are prepared to handled them. We have placed the proper piece of God's armour on.... that shields us from those lies and snares that satan sets for us in order to cause us to trip, compromise, detour or sway from the truth that we know that will bring peace and trust to us during difficult times. We reconize that those wrong thoughts and doubts are from satan, not God.
When we are skipping around and missing those important and much needed times with the Lord, we are placing ourselves in the path of the enemy unarmed. That is when fear, worry, doubt and all kinds of wrong feelings come in to play and just like Eve, we allow satan to trick us into thinking wrongly...and we have only ourselves to blame.
Out of know where our feelings can change from a good day..... to feelings of being alone
in a parched desert wondering how we got there....and we are overwhelmed and our souls are craving the living water that we must have but have neglected to drink in order to renew us. We cry out to God saying, “My tank is empty Lord, please refill me....I need you now!"
And He comes along side us, helping us find our way back to where He is. Taking His easy yoke can only be attained by the daily surrender of our wills to His. Do it His way!
God will not force Himself on you. He will allow you to go alone, until you realize that you are alone, doing it your way....He promises to never forsake you and is ready the very moment you realize you walked away, He didn't. You can count on the fact that, if you are His, His eye never turns away from you and He sees you, even when you loose sight of Him!
Hold Fast,
-Bren
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