Bored --- Why?(And what to do about it!)

Boredom afflicts people often.

When nothing is happening, at least to the mind and the body's eye, we get nervous, antsy, restless, uptight.

Yet God is working, always working:

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."
(Philippians 2:12-13)

Then why do we get tired of life?

Oswald Chambers touched on this issue:

"If you abandon entirely to God, He says at once, "Thy life will I give thee for a prey." The reason people are tired of life is because God has not given them anything, they have not got their life as a prey."

Yes! If we are not actively receiving from God EVERYTHING, then we are striving, working in our own flesh, through our own efforts, and therefore God's grace cannot flow:

"Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." (Galatians 5:4)

Here, to be "justified by law" implies doing anything in our own strength, rather than by grace through faith:

Well did Paul the Apostle write:

"Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." (Romans 14:23)

Because we are called to a life of faith, it therefore follows that we do not strive to achieve, but believe and receive all things from Him!

If we are bored, listless, out of touch, it is because we have become swamped with the notion that we must do something; but all things have been done, and the moment we abide in the Truth, behold once again we receive all things!