When you are awake you work. Maybe 8-5 Monday through Friday, or maybe more sporadic like a retail schedule--9-5 one day, 10-2 the next. At some point, though, your body will require rest. Not complete shut-down of systems, but rest.
Your eyes get heavy, your shoulders tense, maybe your muscles get achy, you yawn. Your systems need repair. You get to lay down and shut your eyes--letting all of your worries go--you go to sleep.
When you wake, you likely feel refreshed. Some nights are better than others. Some nights the baby wakes you up, or the furnace kicks on for the first time all season and jolts you awake. Some nights you lay your head on the pillow and the next thing you know the alarm is going off telling you to get up and do it all again. Other nights you wake startled, covered in sweat from a bad dream.
God doesn't rest.
His body doesn't need repair.
His systems don't shut down.
His eyes are never heavy.
His muscles never tense.
He never goes to sleep.
He never wakes in the night.
He is simply always 'on'. Always with you. He doesn't punch out or take a vacation. (short of being a mother, I cannot think of a tougher job, am I right ladies?)
Isn't it wonderful? I cannot think of how many times I have thought to myself, "God, where are you in this situation...why did you? Why didn't you?"
I got a call from a friend today. He has been struggling with his faith--Christianity as a whole. God has revealed Himself to this friend. Without the struggle, the trial, God would just be a mom...always there, but nothing spectacular on a day to day basis(at least to a 5 year old). But we are given the trials, the bad dreams to remind us of how big God is. How amazing. How wonderful.
God never sleeps.
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