Are you living with a driving restlessness so disturbing that it is affecting your ability to sleep?

Maybe you feel restless about your job...an urgency is prodding you to quit and seek new employment. Or possibly you are thinking that you have lived in one place long enough and are ready to move on. Or maybe you are restless about your marriage and are contemplating a separation or divorce that you think will solve your problems.

There are many causes of restlessness, unpleasant at best and traumatic at worst. They need to be faced and analyzed.

When we feel a restless urgency we need to ask, "Is this God urging me to make a change, or is it my own dissatisfaction? It's vital not to make important decisions in the eye of the storm. Rather, covet God's calming influence; then when the storm clouds lift, you are free to see your situation with more clarity, and free to decide rationally just what God's perfect will is for you. Above all, never make a move based on fear.

Before you go to sleep tonight, ask God to lift your stormy restlessness so you can awake refreshed and see His will. His direction will come quietly, gently and couched in peace in spite of the circumstances. And His timing, based on a vision beyond the human limitations of perception, will be perfect.

"...the work of righteousness shall be peace: and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever" (Isaiah 32:17).

Father God, I ask for Your peace now and through this night. I expect to awaken refreshed, and seeing things the way You want me to see them. I want to walk in Your will, Father. Guide me now. In Jesus' Name, Amen.