Five Minute Friday: TIRED
I’m tired of inviting people to church who never come and sharing the Gospel with those who seem like they will never accept it.
I’m tired of giving my time and energy to preparing meals for children who say “eww” when I set it on the table — I know, we are working on that.
I’m tired of not feeling seen by my husband when I’m in over my head in a million different ways.
I’m just tired. Aren’t you?
Recently, I have been reading None Like Him by Jen Wilkin which outlines all the ways God is different than us and why that’s actually a really good thing. It has been so humbling for me to see in Him the abundant fulfillment of all my shortcomings. It is empowering to know that I am lifted above all my failures by the One who has not failed once. When I’m stressed by deadlines or timelines, He holds it all together unbound by time.
One way God is most definitely NOT like me is he doesn’t grow tired — EVER. He doesn’t get tired of my constant striving for perfection, endless complaints, and utter inability to remember anything for more than two seconds (I’m not kidding, my friend wished for me to receive brain power from the Lord for my birthday!). He rested when He was finished with Creation but not because He needed to; he rested to show us a pattern of how we ought to live. How humbling it is to need rest and time away form the affairs of life and the anxieties they bring! What a great gift it is that the Lord grants me that rest in the form of sleep, communion with Him, and moments of peace and prayer scattered throughout my day.
This need for rest shows me how much I’m not like God and how much I need Him. I’m literally going to sleep for a third of my life and rest another sizable fraction of it. And all that time, I have to trust that God is in control because He is. Because He is not bound by time, His power is unlimited, and He is not even capable of turning His back on me for even a moment.
He doesn’t need me because He doesn’t need anything. Yet, He loves me. He provides for me, and He walks with me as I stumble through this life of mine. And when my strength doesn’t feel like enough to meet the needs of the day ahead, I can smile because I know it’s not supposed to. I am made to tire out. I am made to need God and to rest in His provision.
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Sounds like a great book, I think I need to add it to my growing TBR list! Thanks for sharing today 🙂 If you figure out how to solve the picky eater issue, you could be a millionaire!
It’s so good! My TBR list is always growing. I recently started listening to audiobooks via the Hoopla app/my local library (in America) and it has changed everything! I have NO HOPE for solving the picky eater issue, but we’ve come along way. Still drives me crazy, though!
So much THIS:”He rested when He was finished with Creation but not because He needed to; he rested to show us a pattern of how we ought to live.” Also am reminded of these words from Scripture “Be still and know that I am God!” I’m in the 6 spot this week.
Yes that encouragement to “Be still” sounds a lot easier than I make it out to be sometimes, but the power is in knowing who God is and resting in it. Thanks for bringing that to mind!
A to the MEN! So good. “I am made to need God and rest in His provision!” – yes, I needed that reminder!
I am so very humbled – and grateful – that my Saviour does not get tired of me…and all my neediness! How powerful!
To the very depths, ME TOO!