I’ve been feeling really worn down lately.
Between week after week of sick children, being sick myself, winter doldrums, and a slew of relentless attacks from an “unknown” source, I am just flat out ready for this season of life to be over. I’m ready for a little break in the action and for things to transition into a little less drama and a little more peace.
In these times I have to remind myself it’s ok to feel worn down and to be sick and tired of all the drama. This is not the way life “should be” anyway. Ideally life would be the way God designed it to be, but this side of Heaven it just isn’t that way.
Our very souls yearn for “something more” and even sometimes “something less” than what this world has to offer. More peace. Less drama. More joy. Less stuff. More love. Less hate. We feel compelled to search out for these things in our own lives and we feel unsettled in the pursuit of them when we try to find them in the world alone. That’s because the world just can’t provide us with true joy, peace, and love. But God. God can.
Lately it has been easy to forget this very message in my own life. I have been living with a high level of stress, drama, and pure disorder for many years now. It’s easy to get swept up in the current of chaos. To lose footing and in turn lose sight of the One who is in control over this all. The very one who created us and who will also avenge us in His time. I so often forget this.
Maybe you needed the reminder today as much as I did. Or, maybe you are standing on firm ground this morning and your mooring is solid. If that’s the case, then find someone who is not in that place currently and offer life giving words to them. Encourage those around you while you can see clearly.
Let these words from Paul encourage you today as you either refocus your eyes on our Creator or help to lift another out of a pit with the hope that is in Jesus!
1 Thessalonians 5 reads:
Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Final Instructions
Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
Brothers and sisters, pray for us. Greet all God’s people with a holy kiss. I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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You used one of my very favorite verses that I love to pray over people. “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.” I love that HE HIMSELF WILL DO IT. We don’t have to strive. Just run to Him. GREAT reminders, today. Thank you. And ((hug))
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