Have you ever tried to get four "wired' children to sleep at night on air mattresses sitting on the floor? Well last night that was the mission of five adults...and a dog... Needless to say.. It took quite awhile before the last of the children fell asleep...
With them all getting thirsty and then all getting hungry one would have thought the children never got fed or allowed to drink anything... Until midnight... Then there are the noises that had to be made from sneezing to coughing and other various sounds that need not get mentioned...(Yep Those...)
We get to bed and things are getting settled down when a millipede appears on the ceiling...How do children see a millipede on the ceiling in the dark??? Well now you have frantic children because everyone knows that's the kind of millipede that stings... We "take care" of the millipede and everyone now goes back to bed...
By now it's even later... So I decide to get them to sleep by sleeping with them on the air mattresses on the floor... We do all eventually get to sleep... Alas...I awake a little later on for a "Coffee" break and struggle off the air mattress and have my break and then get in bed...
What a night from an eventful day..which I will describe at a later date...
The Christian life is like this sometimes...When we all get together to accomplish something we are really excited at the prospect of the project... but sometimes in our enthusiasm and excitement we miss the "rest" that Jesus wants to provide us in our endeavor... We strive to do everything in our own power without using God's power and we miss the "rest".... Rest does not always come in the form of sleeping but it comes in the relationship of Jesus working with us to accomplish the task He wants and not always the task we want....Just like last night in the struggle to get the children asleep...Sleep and rest only came after I decided to get involved in the actual process of the sleeping... Jesus' rest only comes when we allow Him to join us in the task we are striving to accomplish.
"Come unto Me and I will give you rest.. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28 - 30 Brian's Paraphrase
Praye of the Day: Jesus help me to take your yoke and allow me to find Your rest.
Keep Lookin' Up!
Brian
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