Do you ever feel anxious as a parent? I do. I’ll be the first to raise my hand. I’ll raise both hands!
All kinds of things contribute to this anxiety. Our culture encourages us to work ourselves to death and work our children to death so we can be successful. But this drive to succeed and consume more and more stuff can make us spiritually sick inside. Some have called it “affluenza”.
We’re so focused on earning money and spending money, meeting deadlines and reaching goals, that we drive ourselves crazy.
God has a word for us anxious parents. Psalm 127:3 says, “It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.”
Have you ever wondered why God made us in such a way that we have to sleep away a third of our lives? Isn’t that crazy? Think of how many hours we could be doing other things. Why did he make us that way? Why do we need sleep? Sleep is a gift from God. It reminds us that we are not God. God wants us to rest in him.
Read the full article here to see how the author fleshes out his answers to these questions.
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