Fighting sleep

Have you ever watched a child fighting sleep?  It really is quite funny.  I remember when Topaz was a kitten if she was over tired she would charge around the room bumping into things as she went.  Why is it that we fight sleep?  I suppose it comes down to FOMO...Fear of missing out. 

If I sleep and I wanted to paint...then my painting won't get done.  If I sleep and I want to watch a movie, I won't have been entertained.... the list goes on.  Truth is if we sleep we loose nothing.  I mean aren't our brains designed to conjure up great adventures once we close our eyes?  Of course so. 

We deny ourselves rest and then wonder why we burn out.  God didn't want that for our lives, he wanted us to be able to rest in peace while alive.  How about next time your body needs rest, take it, sleep and allow God to fill you with His peace.  

Something new

I have just spent the last 3 days at a Sage Payroll course. This was a real joy for me to do as it has been a long time since I have had the opportunity to learn a completely new set of accounting skills. Sure I wrote my accounting and tax exams years ago, but I have never learned how to do a fully automated payroll solution before.

Why is this such an exciting challenge for me to take on? Because I will now not only be able to add value in my role to my current employer, but this is truly a vocational skill that I can utilize well into my retirement years. Yip, unfortunately I do plan on working for quite some time.

Would you believe me if I told you that you add value to God? How, you ask? Because if we don't choose Jesus to be our Saviour then Christ's sacrifice would have been in vain. If every person who ever lived rejected God, there would have been no purpose for which He gave His life.

Therefore know that you are precious to God, not only because He made you and you are created in His image and His beloved, but because you are the reason for which Christ was manifest into our world.

You are worthy

When you have been through a long season of hard knocks it is easy to start thinking that you will never experience anything good again and that life is just going to be one misery after another.  God has been showing me in the last two months that this is simply not what He wants for our lives. 

God truly does want us to experience good things and to be happy.  The devil would have us believe that we are not worthy of the wonderful things that God wants to bless us with and he will throw all sorts of lies at us about what we deserve. 

I want to challenge you to believe that God loves you and He wants the best for you!  You are worthy of God's blessings and God's best for you.  Stand your ground against the devil and refuse to believe his lies.  You are a king's kid and deserve daddy's love and blessing!