"Good morning! Sleepless in (See-Battle) sounds like a title for a movie, if it weren't so common for people to always see battles in their life. Therefore, I reckon it would do terrible at the box office. Nobody wants to see a movie that they are already familiar with the plot.
This brings us to todays devotional. It seems that most people see life and its opportunities as a constant battle to see who gets the prize. The nights become long with the many strategies in how to get that promotion, get those needed funds, get that other relationship because the one your in no longer meets your expectations.
We connive, we steal, we lie, we deceive and manipulate all with the idea that we have a right for our life to be better at the expense of someone else's. This has become the reason for so much restlessness among us. Living a life of schemes in order to advance our agenda has become a way of life.
We even see this in the Church, which is more disturbing based on what Christ has done for us to be different. Why then do we have so many awesome provisions in God and we still live outside of them? Because we don't really believe that they are there. This is the biggest reason that we continue to practice such destructive schemes. We are afraid of not getting our share.
When we do such things that diminishes others so that we can get ahead, we violate our new nature and thus can only expect to be Sleepless and (See-Battle). You can't ever truly rest when life is always seen as a battle. Without Divine rest, there can be no rest. This is the reason people don't think too clearly, they are exhausted. Don't take my word on this, listen to God's:
What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. (James 4:1-3 NLT) |
