I have been struck recently by the number of women who tell me that they cannot sleep at night. One middle aged friend is learning a new computer program and the stress level at work is very high. She has family demands at home and when evening comes she is utterly exhausted but night after night she finds that sleeps eludes her. She tosses and turns from 3 am until she rises to face another stress-filled exhausting day.
On Sunday I approached a gal in her 20's and asked her about whether or not she could join us at the Bible study she had signed up for. She told me she hasn't been able to sleep and the idea of going somewhere in the evening didn't appeal to her. She is exhausted and she is young.
What are we doing that is so important? Why do we need to run so fast? Are we trying to pack more into life? Is that why we have so many highly caffeinated drinks available to us?
We even come back from our vacations exhausted! What is wrong with this picture?
We are driven. We don't even know why. We have never known any other way. Many people are missing the entire point of why they have been given life.
They are running frantically day after exhausting day. But the trouble is- the day is fast approaching when they are going to stand before Almighty God and get the shock of their life. They are going to discover that He wanted us to stop striving to impress people and acquire stuff and take time to know Him as Lord.
I grieve over the frantic pace of people's lives and the futility of it all. The enemy of God has deceived us into thinking we MUST get all sorts of (earthly) things done and that we simply don't have time to consider the deeper things of life.
Monday, June 14, 2010
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