Are you busy? Do you feel like you are constantly running from one task to the next, never able to catch your breath?
Then you, my friend, are not alone. This semester I have realized more than I ever that I am overcommitted. I sign up for everything and have no idea how to slow down. Even though I know that I do too much, I have no idea how to change that. One answer that has been repeated to me over and over is that I need to learn to say no. The other answer people keep giving me is that I need to rest.
Let me tell you, rest is the most difficult thing for me. Half of me wants to sleep all the time and ignore every responsibility, while the other part of me spends every quiet moment stressing over the work I'm not doing. True rest is an unachievable goal, to be stared at but always put off for another day.
So I pray. I pray that God will help me find rest in Him, as His Word promises. This is something I have done on numerous occasions. But this week, as I was reading Psalm 62, reading aloud the lines in verse 5 "Find rest, O my soul, in God alone, my hope comes from Him," it hit me.
How could I sit and ask God to be my rest, when I don't take any time out of my busy life to come to Him?
How on Earth do I expect to find rest when I refuse to go to the source?
So often in my mad rush to accomplish the "necessities," my spiritual walk falls by the wayside. I throw prayers into the air when the spare moment meets the thought of God, but other than that, I do nothing to nourish my soul. It seems my Bible time is always the first priority to be cut out of my overflowing schedule.
In the same moment I decide not to spend time in the Word, I send up prayers asking God to give me strength. Then I find myself surprised at the late nights spent in exhausted panic over all my little tasks. It is so easy to become stressed and exhausted, especially when I'm not spending time with God.
So my first goal for balancing my life is to make more time for God. Spending time in His Word is rest, in and of itself, and I'm certain that it will help me find rest in other areas.
I want to encourage you find quiet moments as well. What are some ways you can try to find rest in your life this week?
