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Join us for our Daily Devotional Chat today in our Women’s Chatroom at 10:30 am EDT.
Restlessness is not always a bad thing. That sense that there is better somewhere, that the grass is greener elsewhere is part of the eternal call of God on our hearts.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
As believers we know that we are just passing through this world. Our restless spirit is often the call to focus on more eternal things.
Faith is a steadfast refusal to seek ultimate things – ultimate pleasure, ultimate fulfillment, ultimate purpose, ultimate understanding – where God has not laid them.
We know God calls us to a greater value system. Let that realization anchor your heart with hope.
Rest is mixed with restlessness. Vacations are always too short and less than ideal. Dream homes have problems, some nightmarish with leaky pipes and cracking foundations. Good health is hard to maintain and can be snatched by sudden mishap or stray virus. Community is fragile and even amid close friends we can feel a little lonely.
Delight in the rich things of today that the Lord blesses your life with. Know that when they cannot satisfy you entirely, it is His call upon your heart to look upward. Look homeward to Him and know that the richest treasures are not kept in an earthly bank.
Heavenly Father,
Right now I ask You to train my restlessness in Your ways and help me find the deep treasures of Your Kingdom today. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Inspired by “The Rest of God” Chapter 14 by Mark Buchanan
Questions: How do you analyze your restless spirit? How can that restless spirit be satisfied?
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Oh Gail, I’ve not stopped by for eons and this was sent by a friend. I agree that so often when I’m restless in spirit it seems I’m lost the focus of ‘life eternal’ and have filled my life w/superficial busyness. Having moved last Sept I had been feeling this restlessness a lot, asking God ‘where will You fit me in to things?’ What would You have me do?’….. just one month ago He brought a new believer into my life; a Bible Study in a retirement home to join and hospital visitation thru our church.
I see that my ‘restless spirit’ seeking His will for a new life, in a new city worked to help me to find a new path in which to serve Him, to enjoy life and to have things of substance w/eternity stamped upon them for my days…. it just took awhile and some searching and testing of other doors to find the ones He had ‘prepared for me in advance!” :-D I hope this helps others?
Can anyone tell me why I can’t log onto the devotional chats? When I click on anything — talk to a mentor, chat, etc. — nothing happens.
Good One
Denise, I’m not very computer literate but I’ll try to figure out how to do it. I have not stopped by for the chat, etc this summer; taking time off to get in shape as I’d become a couch potato….will see if I can figure it out and get back to you either way okay?
Denise, I was able to get in so I don’t know what to say. Can you send in an email directly to their web site asking for help w/this? Right now the chat is not working as there is not one running until later tonight.
Sorry not to be able to help; but know it has happened to others in the past and usually gets rectified :-D
Andi
I forward the devotionals daily when I can which is not as often as I would like since you put a frame around the message and when trying to forward it, the words cut off at the end of the sentences. It is very time consuming and difficult to rearrange the message so that it is incomplete. Previous message about this have not led to any improvement in the problem. Thank you.
My friend seemed to just ‘forward’ the message rather than copy and paste
Maybe try copy and pasting the actual web site :-D
i can be so peaceful for long periods of time and when the restlessness hits i feel like i’m crawling out of my skin. Things i try daily to ignore like this 65 yr old house i’m living in that is falling apart at it’s seams. Even the concrete outside is cracking into boulder size pieces more and more each day. i long to get out of this neighborhood, this house, this oppressed atmosphere but there is nothing i can do all by myself. i work 7 days a week just to keep a roof over my head and food in the cupboards and haven’t had a vacation in years. i get lonely for male companionship and pray and pray yet the LORD doesn’t do anything to help me out. So i just keep going day after day, accepting my lot in life. Then the restlessness makes me want to just throw all caution to the wind and break out and have sex, get drunk and just say the hell with it all! Of course i don’t and of course i won’t. i need to get a life! LORD hear my prayer.
Trisha, Will be praying for you that you do get new hope and dreams to look forward to.
Thank you b/c i really need it! Bless you!
Trisha: I was so touched by your plight. You seem really “stuck” and that you feel powerless. I just want to encourage you with one thing. God has you where you are for a reason. He will move you on when that work is done. Look around you…what is there for you to do for Him? Don’t just exist in this place, accept it and embrace it as you’re future testimony. You are to be commended by the way, for not throwing caution to the wind. He will meet you where you are…in your singleness, be the one light in your oppressive atmosphere. He will give you a song if you will stop trying to get out, and instead live for Him where you are. I am praying for and loving you.
Dear Holly, thank you so VERY much for your encouraging and loving words. You made me think… since i’ve been here the “demonic going ons” like prostitution stings on the corner, heroin users shooting up in back of the seedy motel, the loud drunks across the street, the police and ambulances every other night,the gang members stabbing each other (i’ll never forget THAT one)…have all stopped. i’ve annointed this place over and over again. Even though it’s been broken into and i’ve been robbed twice…i still have my faith and a relationship with Jesus Christ. i want to believe my very presence here is like a lighthouse for Him. i pray for those who walk past his house, maybe it’s doing something. i’ve done quite a few prayer walks as well. You’re right…HE will move me on someday just like he has all the other times. Like i said previously, i do fine for longer periods of time with accepting my lot, my lonliness and frustration levels. i feel they are tests of my faithfulness to see what i will do. “Curse God and die” like they told Job or stand strong in Jesus Christ and HIS promises. When the restlessness comes, yes, it’s HARD yet i hold tight to my boundries and know HE is increasing within me. Thank you again for your concern and prayers, i TRULY appreciate them more than you’ll ever know! Many Blessings to you Holly~trisha
Thank you for your kind words. It was a blessing to hear how God has already used you to dispell the darkness around you. Stay strong, mighty warrior…you are truly in a war zone! God bless and keep you in his wonderful love.
Oh and Holly…i had to tell you this…where you wrote, ” He will give you a song if you will stop trying to get out, and instead live for Him where you are.”… it hit me with such honest revelation! “stop trying to get out”…it made me realize once again and remember how Jesus knows EVERYTHING. HE knows the time when HE will move me. Your words brought me to the place HE wants us all to be…RESTING. i wrote the sentence in my journal, sat back and took a big deep breath. You have truly blessed me my sister in Christ!
Trisha; Ahh… His rest is sweet, isn’t it? Matt. 11: 28-30
I analyze my restless spirit as being……..’antzy’ at times. The how is easy……..with patience.