I couldn’t sleep last night – again. The reason why was I was plagued with
thoughts of work. My mind was racing – I
actually realised that I was thinking of the same things over and over again,
resolving them and then thinking of them again. One of my colleagues once told
me that my problem is that I think about people that are not even thinking
about me – in the work context, that is – because I wanted to rush my lunch so
that I could get back to the conference room.
It got me thinking as to why – why was I doing this? It all
came back to my fear of failure. I have a fear of failure! This is what makes
me a workaholic. But what does it matter, even though I am giving my all to my
work, working as unto the Lord, as we are encouraged in the bible, Jesus said
that “Do not be over-anxious, therefore,
about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own cares. Enough for each day
are its own troubles” Mt 6:34.
This does not mean that I have to give up work, or
giving my all to what I do. It means
that at the end of each day, as soon as I walk out of that door, I am leaving
everything in the hands of the Lord – trusting Him that all will be fine and
that tomorrow when I walk in the door, things will still be fine. He never sleeps or slumbers, so I can trust
Him for all of these things!
Halleluia! What a mighty God we serve! I bow down in
reverential awe of His splendour and greatness and I pray that you, dear
reader, will be able to trust God with all that you do and leave today’s
troubles for today. God has given us a
spirit of a sound mind and not of fear (“For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power,
and of love, and of a sound mind” 2 Tim 1:7).
Be
encouraged today!
