#340.1 – “Asleep on the… Hey!!!”

“Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness.” - Psalms 119:40
Before Sarah took Ruthie to her guitar lesson a couple of weeks ago, she dropped off Anna, Grant, and Joshua here at the church building. They all had some homework, but Joshua’s only took about five minutes. After he was finished, he played for a while around the church. Since they practically have this as their second home, I was not really worried about watching him and what he was doing… as I was concentrating on my own work.
When Sarah came back with Ruthie, she laughed as she came down the hall to my office. When I asked her what was so funny, she told me to go check in the room across the hall (the one with the couches). Sure enough, there Joshua was - laid out cold! I mean, he was sound asleep. In fact, he was so sound asleep that we were able to have our staff meeting in that room (our usual meeting place) just a few minutes later. All of the guys laughed as they came in and saw my boy crashed on the sofa… and they were all equally tickled when I told them they we could still meet in there and it wouldn’t bother Joshua’s sleep one bit. ‘He’s got three siblings,’ I told them ‘and he’s used to being able to sleep through all kinds of racket!’
Nothing was going to disturb Joshua’s need for rest that day. Oh how I would like to have that same kind of singular focus when it comes to my need for God and His Word! If I would only ‘shut out’ every single thing that would seek to interrupt or sway me from the treasure that is found only in Him.
Lord, help me to learn a lesson about recognizing and surrendering to my need of You.

Daniel