Tiredness
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· 15 viewsA natural outcome of work and stress for which God has provided relief, rest and renewal. Scripture recognises that tiredness may have spiritual, as well as physical, causes.
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Causes of tiredness
Causes of tiredness
Work
Work
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
See also Ec 10:15; Ec 12:12
Afflictions and stress
Afflictions and stress
But now he hath made me weary:
Thou hast made desolate all my company.
See also 2 Sa 17:29; 1 Ki 19:3–5; Ps 69:3; 2 Co 12:15
Concern and anxiety
Concern and anxiety
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble:
Mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
See also Ps 6:6; Ps 32:3–4; Ps 119:28; Je 45:3; Lk 22:45
Desire for money and possessions
Desire for money and possessions
Labour not to be rich:
Cease from thine own wisdom.
Travelling
Travelling
See also Dt 25:18; Jdg 8:4; 2 Sa 16:14; Jn 4:6
Old age
Old age
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Zeal for the Lord’s work
Zeal for the Lord’s work
My zeal hath consumed me,
Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Battles
Battles
Jdg 4:21; 1 Sa 14:31; 2 Sa 21:15; 2 Sa 23:10; Je 51:30
Sin and rebellion
Sin and rebellion
Is 57:10; Je 9:5; Eze 23:43
Foolishness
Foolishness
Ec 1:8; Is 46:1; Is 47:13; Je 12:13
Help from God to deal with tiredness
Help from God to deal with tiredness
God’s promises of help and rest
God’s promises of help and rest
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
That the everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Fainteth not, neither is weary?
There is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint;
And to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings as eagles;
They shall run, and not be weary;
And they shall walk, and not faint.
See also Is 46:4; 2 Co 9:8
Jesus Christ offers rest and encouragement
Jesus Christ offers rest and encouragement
Mt 11:28–30; Re 2:2–3
See also Mk 6:31
Trusting God as the antidote to anxiety and sorrow
Trusting God as the antidote to anxiety and sorrow
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
See also Ps 119:28
God’s provision of times for rest
God’s provision of times for rest
Ge 1:5; Ge 2:2; Ps 127:2; Je 31:25
Help from others to deal with tiredness
Help from others to deal with tiredness
Encouragements to be strong in the Lord and to persevere
Encouragements to be strong in the Lord and to persevere
Ps 27:14; 1 Co 15:58
See also Ga 6:9; 2 Th 3:13; Heb 12:1–3
God’s help channelled through others
God’s help channelled through others
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary:
He wakeneth morning by morning,
He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
See also 2 Co 1:3–4
Physical help from others
Physical help from others
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
See also Ex 17:12; Jdg 8:15; 2 Sa 17:28–29; 1 Ki 19:5–6
Advice about lifestyle
Advice about lifestyle
And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.