I ponder often why I am always tired, why I rarely feel rested, even after rest. It seems inane, but one can eat and not be full. One can work and not be tired or reach completion, I guess resting is one of those things like, 'Just because you are alone it does not mean you are lonely.'
More often than not I rest, but rarely do I feel rested. It hit me in a brief prayer time today - I need not the absence of activity, but the presence of peace and the absence of internal turmoil. This one is surely impossible with man. So I put my hope in God to pacify the internal environment so that I feel less run down all the time. Just yesterday I was saying, "there is no such thing as too much ministry." This is the closest I have been to 1 Kings 18-19 in a very long time.
Lord, I beg for internal peace that I might be rested when I rest. You know the things that plague my mind and you know how to quiet them. I pray for peace in my heart that I might be refreshed. Help me to remember that my soul is renewed daily, help me thus to feel renewed daily.
More often than not I rest, but rarely do I feel rested. It hit me in a brief prayer time today - I need not the absence of activity, but the presence of peace and the absence of internal turmoil. This one is surely impossible with man. So I put my hope in God to pacify the internal environment so that I feel less run down all the time. Just yesterday I was saying, "there is no such thing as too much ministry." This is the closest I have been to 1 Kings 18-19 in a very long time.
Lord, I beg for internal peace that I might be rested when I rest. You know the things that plague my mind and you know how to quiet them. I pray for peace in my heart that I might be refreshed. Help me to remember that my soul is renewed daily, help me thus to feel renewed daily.
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