So I’ve been pretty sick lately. As a result I have been sleeping in more and not getting as high quality of God-time as usual. I know that God understands that we are human and that we need times of rest. But there does come a time when we have to get back on track.
In this time of being sick and not as focused, I have found that I’ve weakened spiritually and mentally as well. So a couple of days I ago God led me to this verse, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10) So I have been praying, “Lord, restore a right spirit within me.” Well, this morning I am lying awake in bed (God does this when He wants to spend time with me. No matter how exhausted I think I am, He won’t let me sleep.), and I’m telling God that I’ve been sick and I really need a little more rest. So I decide I can spend some time with God while I’m lying there trying to go back to sleep (knowing full well that He’s not going to let me…we’ve been through this many times before), and I offer up my little prayer, “Lord, restore a right spirit within me.” And God says, “Well, get your rear out of bed!” God was telling me that restoration, transformation and growth come from spending time with Him and in His Word. His Word is power and when it gets in us it will do mighty works, but God was not going to magically fix me. I had to get out of bed and get into His Word, and then He would begin to do a mighty work in my life.
So I ask you, have you been seeing the power and sensing the presence of God in your everyday life lately? Or do you need to, as my mother would say, get your rear in gear? J
