Exchange Your Pressure For God’s Peace

There are three kinds of fatigue. There’s physical fatigue, which is being tired all the time. There’s emotional fatigue, which is where we start becoming numb to life. And then there’s spiritual fatigue, where we become spiritually dry.

We often talk about our need for a vacation, but it shouldn’t be from God. We take this time to rest physically and emotionally, but what have we done to rest spiritually?

Whenever I go on vacation I make sure to get up and still take that time with the Lord. This gets me pumped up for the day and reenergized for my return.

God wants us to exchange the pressures of life for His peace. God is our loving Shepherd, but if we are obstinate in this area, then He will find a way to set us down to take that time with Him.

Look again at our verse in Psalm 23

“He makes me to lie down in green pastures.” (Psalm 23:2a)

If we don’t slow down and smell the roses, then God will make us lie down and smell the roses in the flowers sent to our hospital room.

One guy never seemed to make it to church. Instead he was always skiing. One morning the pastor gets a call from the hospital. The guy broke both legs. He told the pastor God had to slow him down so he would start paying attention to what is really important.

We need the Lord to be our pacemaker; kind of like the pacemaker doctors sets inside a patient to regulate their heart. You see, the Lord is the one who formed us, therefore He is the only one that knows what pace we should live our lives.

And so, we need a relationship with our heavenly Shepherd who makes us lie down in green pastures and leads us beside the still waters, and who knows how long to work, and when we need to rest and recreate.