Quit Spinning Your Wheels

We’ve all either owned a hamster or had a friend that had one as a pet. You could sit for a long time and watch them spin on their wheel…round and round, sometimes spinning so fast that the poor little thing was flung off. Of course, we’d laugh, and even if it wasn’t funny to the hamster, the fuzzy fur ball must not have cared too much, because it would go right back and do it again…and again…and again! 

We sometimes use that scenario to describe our busy lives, like hamsters on a wheel, spinning out of control and going nowhere. Society seems to push our busy button, forcing us to keep up with the Joneses, or over-involving ourselves and our kids to the point of no return. We collapse at the end of the day, rise the next morning, just to do it all over again.  

Psalm 127:2 (MSG) “It’s useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don’t you know He enjoys giving rest to those He loves?” Other versions say it is “in vain” that we rise early and go to bed late. This says to me that the rat race we call every-day life is pointless if it does not align with God’s plans for us. Anything not grounded in Godly truth is bound to fail, eventually. Long days spent striving to get what the Lord has not willed are just stressful days leading to sleepless nights. 

Instead of spinning our wheels getting nowhere, why not slow down, take a deep breath and seek what it is that God has for us? His ways are not our ways, and sometimes we can’t see how His path is better than the one we’ve chosen, but He sees things we can’t and His direction keeps us on track to reach our destiny with the fewest potholes. Ephesians 3:20 (AMP) “Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do super abundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us.” Super abundantly…beyond your wildest dreams…run after THAT!