"Get Well"

"Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you."  Psalm 116:7

 

When I was sick this past week, I wasn't given much medicine to take but I was told by the doctor and various other people to get lots of rest and drink plenty of liquids.  Rest and liquids are the two main things that are conducive to getting well.  While laying there the thought occurred to me that this is the same thing we need to do to be healthy spiritually.

 

The reason many of us are spiritually sickly is because we are not getting the rest that we need.  I am not just talking about physical rest, although there is way too much busyness in our lives that is unnecessary.  I am mostly talking about resting in the Lord. 

 

How many of us are busy trying to take matters into our own hands, solve our own problems, figure out a solution to our needs, come up with an answer to our prayers or make something happen, instead of resting in the Lord and His ability to do it?  We would be happier and healthier if we would let God take care of things for us and stop trying to do it ourselves.  When we aren't resting, we are striving.  When we are striving, we are opening the door to spiritual sickness and disease-- anxiety, confusion, frustration, depression, complaining, etc.  These "break the spirit and dry up the bones".  They make our faith weak.  They diminish our trust in the Lord.  They take our eyes off of our true Help.         

 

Is this you?  Are you trying to make something happen?  Are you in a constant state of frustration?  Do you feel tired and weary all the time?  Are you always busy trying to work something out?  Then you aren't resting.  Until you learn to rest and let the Lord handle it, you will continue to feel tired and exhausted.

 

Have a great day.  You need to stop trying to do it and rest by letting the Lord take care of it.