What Is It You Are Really Tired Of?
Isaiah 40:28-31 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding. 29He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. 30Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted; 31But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.
My daughter and I had a discussion this past weekend about being faithful in you attendance of church (not that this alone will save us or constitutes a good Christian, there is sooo much more). She was arguing a point that sometimes you are just tired, I said true, but when you have a cake order and you are tired do you just stay in bed or go to bed without completing it? The answer of course was no. I have heard other people say to me, I am so tired of things being a certain way in their lives, or I am tired of being treated like this. But I have to say the one that I hear the most is I am tired of waiting, I think God doesn’t want me to have a certain thing, or He is not hearing me. What is it that we are really saying we are tired of in moments where we make choices that yield to a feeling over yielding to the Word of God or His promises? Many of us give up and throw in the towel not because we are tired but because we are throwing a tantrum, we want what we want and we want it now, and so we say we are tired and fold our arms, and get into a place of being in refusal to move another inch, talk to God, go to church or even pray. We shut down.
What do most parents do when their child is throwing a tantrum, or acting out? For most of we will issue a form of punishment whether a stern talking to and swat on the bottom, restricting them from what it is that they really want, or a combination of these. Most psychologist would tell you to ignore the behavior and do not reinforce it. Ignore and do not reward what is thought to be an undesirable behavior and reward what is deemed acceptable. So why is it we think throwing a tantrum with God will yield a different reaction? We think because we talk about God being merciful and kind that He will succumb to our childishness or our acting out because we are mad or hurt because He is not moving the way we want Him to when we want Him to. God is sovereign, but more importantly He is God and He knows our story, He knows what is around the corner and He knows what happened the day you were conceived, He knew today an hour ago, He knows about today ten hours from now and even what will happen ten years from now…He created us and knows the exact timing in which we need things to be released in or happen in our lives, but we can mess up, by attempting to get in His way with our “Tiredness,” and our reaction to having to stay in faith a minute more than we feel is comfortable doing so or having to believe God and worship through the pain of our disappointment. If we are following Christ and we are really in love with God we will follow closely understanding that trust and faith in Him is paramount and that in spite of how we feel and what it “may” look like God has us and He loves us and ALWAYS has our best interest at hand. He knows what we need to get in a place to be able to receive from Him, He knows every element of us, our good and our bad, He knows our strengths and our weaknesses, He knows our thoughts and our very heart’s condition, after all He did create us.
So let’s get real with us, what is it that we are really tired of? What are we really saying in the midst of us being tired and shutting down on God? Are we telling Him that trusting Him is too much for us? Are trying to let Him know that we don’t think He is able? Are we saying to Him we think that He has favorites and He is not a just God? If we could only lean NOT to our understanding but acknowledge God by trusting Him with all of our hearts we would not grow tired or as frustrated as we have a tendency to do. If we look at the magnitude of God’s faithfulness and kindness towards us, we would see that giving up on Him and what He has for us is like saying you don’t want to breathe. God has an order and a time for each of our lives. Stop looking around and identifying what everyone else has and what we don’t have God has not forgotten you or your needs, desires or even your wants, He is working it out for you, but He is doing it the way He knows that is best for you and your circumstance. Think for a minute if your car was broken and you could get a cheap quick fix that would end up breaking again and giving you trouble, or would you want to pay the money and have them spend the time getting it fixed the right way so that the fix would last? I am sure most of us if not all of us would want our vehicle fixed the right way even if it cost us the time and a bit more money. The Bible reminds us “don’t become weary in well doing we will reap if we faint not!”
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