WORN OUT
Today's reading: Judges 17-21

"Now in those days Israel had no king. And the tribe of Dan was trying to find a place to settle, for they had not yet driven out the people who lived in the land assigned to them." Judges 18:1 NLT

Worn out from moving place to place.

Fighting for every scrap they had.

Bickering among themselves.

Unsettled.

Unsatisfied.

Incomplete.

The Danites were looking for a place to call 'home', wearing themselves out in the search, eeking out a living for themselves and their children--all the while, they had an assigned piece of prime property given to them by God.

My Bible commentary says, 'rather than fight for their allotted territory, they preferred to look for new land in the north where resistance from the enemy wouldn't be so tough.'

I have to ask myself, and since you're reading this ask you, what are we wearing ourselves out attempting to do that isn't what we're supposed to be doing?

Attempting to be someone He has not designed us to be?

Trying to accomplish something He has not ordained us to be involved in?

Working tirelessly in a ministry He has not called us to participate in?

Giving all we are and have to a lifestyle He never intended us to participate in?

Attempting to scratch out an existence while living in the darkness of sin that He never once wanted us involved in?

Exhausted from searching for things to fill us up, things that never will, things that never can?

Running from one enemy into another we've not been called to fight?

It's making me think this morning. It's causing me to evaluate what I'm doing, where I'm going, what battles I'm fighting and Who or who I am listening to.

Maybe these words will allow you that opportunity, too.