It's been a long day. You had to do this and this and some more of that. When you get home, all you want to do is put on the tea kettle, grab some squares from the freezer and flip on Ultimate Cake Off. The last thing you want to do is pick up your Bible or spend some time in prayer. 'You've had a long day,' you tell yourself. 'You deserve a rest.' But the question to ask yourself is: A rest from what?
It's easy to be deceived by Satan's common lie that it's okay to not worry about worshiping or glorifying God when we're tired. We deserve to relax and have some "me time," right? Wrong.
"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
Paul, who wrote 1 Corinthians, knew that it's not easy to glorify God all the time, especially when we're tired. Did you notice the "whatever you do" in the verse above? That includes coming home after a long day and doing (fill-in-the-blank). Is having a cup of tea and some squares and watching Ultimate Cake Off bringing glory to God? Maybe it is. But are you doing it to take a rest from glorifying God? That's the big question. Why do we do the things we do, especially when we're tired? It must be to bring glory to God.
When we're tired, it's easy to get caught up in our own little worlds. It's easy to push God aside for the time being and focus on our needs. Let's remember, though, that even when we're tired, God created our bodies, and He created our bodies to need sleep and rest. But He didn't create us for the sole purpose to rest. No, the purpose we were created for is to bring glory to God,