Today’s Devotional: “A Peace Exchange”

There are three kinds of fatigue. There’s physical fatigue, which is being tired all the time. There’s emotional fatigue, which is when we start to become 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 a vacation from God. We take this time to rest physically and emotionally, but what have we done to rest spiritually?

Whenever we go on vacation, make sure to get up and spend time with the Lord. This helps us get pumped up for the day and reenergized.

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, He will find a way to set us down so we can take time with Him.

In Psalm 23, King David wrote, “He makes me to lie down in green pastures.” (Psalm 23:2a)

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

One guy never seemed to make it to church. Instead, he was always skiing. One morning, the pastor got a call from the hospital. The guy had broken both legs. He told the pastor that 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 implant inside a patient to regulate their heart. You see, the Lord is the one who formed us; therefore, He is the only one who knows what pace we should live at.

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