And today, I have taught all morning, also productively, but I am feeling tired and not nearly so exhilarated. Ever notice how one high-energy day seems to lead to a low-energy one? It makes me long for heaven, for that New Jerusalem, where all balance will be restored, and we will be done with sin and self-indulgence. Then we won't have to worry about whether we're tired, or just lazy.
I love this passage I read in Revelation this morning. It gives me hope on tiring days:
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away...And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
~Revelation 21: 1-4; 22-27
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