If You are Bored, ask Him to Open Your Eyes

Most of us are bored with life or get run down because we are trying to get for ourselves.

The Preacher diagnosed this problem in Ecclesiastes:

"And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit." (Ecclesiastes 1:17)

"For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?" (Ecclesiastes 2:22)

"For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit." (Ecclesiastes 2:26)

When we stop working for what we already have, then we will stop enduring vanity and vexation of Spirit.

Paul prayed for this revelation to come upon the believers of Ephesus:

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints," (Ephesians 1:17-18)

When we realize that everything is ours (cf 1 Corinthians 3:21) through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, there is therefore no reason for us to strive, but rather to believe on Him and all that He has for us, and therefore thrive accordingly!

If you feel empty, listless, out of sorts, do not heed your feelings or your thoughts, or even the facts in front of you. Instead, pray that God will open the eyes of your understanding (lit. "full intellect") to see that you already have all the fullness of God in You, and that:

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10)

and

"He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6)