Our Tireless God

Tired! There is no other way I can express my current state. Some days just make me tired, people often make me tired, driving can make me tired, meetings really make me tired, waiting in line surely makes me tired. Well you get the point ; today I am tired. Often when I feel like this, my wife tells me to go to the gym, to work it off, and that's what I did today. After an hour of sweating and pushing myself along, you guessed it: I was even more tired. So as I left the gym, I thought maybe a hot bath, a cold glass of iced tea, a movie to watch, or an early trip to bed would help me change my condition.

As climbed into my car pondering my options for the evening, a verse ran through my tired head: "He will not let your foot slip--he who watches over you will not slumber." Psalm 121:3 (NIV). God never slumbers; he continues his work for me and in me. My life is his work and he works with tireless and loving abandonment.  He is even up all night for me ; he never sleeps. When my kids were small, I may have stayed up a few hours at night to help out my wonderful wife but never sleeping was not in my plans. I knew at some point I would have to catch some z's or be one tired and crabby father. So I find it even more amazing that my heavenly father never slumbers but continues to watch over me. Twenty-four-seven, he is never off the clock.

So tonight as I complain to my wife about being tired, maybe I won't be as whiney or so self-centered. For I am reminded in the Scriptures that the one, true, living God, watches over me, and he does not slumber. Like the perfect father he is, my life is his work and he works with tireless abandonment, loving me, caring for me, his child.