Late Nights

I'm not usually up this late. Okay, I don't even remember the last time that I was up this late. Wait, never mind, that would have been at this time last week hanging out with a cabin full of teenage girls on the last night of camp. But seriously, I go to bed at 11 pm, like every single night. So, for me, it is completely unusual for me to be up at this hour.

And yet, here I am, sitting at the kitchen table with the only noises the ticking of the clock and the clicking of the keyboard as I type. I was in bed and almost asleep when my daughter got out of bed, and went back to bed, and got out of bed, and went back to bed, and got out of bed, and went back to bed...you get the point. So, by the time I got her settled back into bed and nice and cozy, I had lost my almost to sleepness. (I know it doesn't quite make sense, but I think you understand)

So, here I am, with the other 5 members of my family sound asleep, all by myself. It's kind of nice really, the house is rarely quiet with 4 young children running around. And if quiet does happen, it's usually a sign that someone is doing something that they aren't supposed to be doing, so I had better go and check on them. Thankfully not the case right now.

Someone once told me that when you can't sleep at night it's usually because God has something to tell you. I believe that God always has something to tell you, the problem is we are just to busy to listen. So, sometimes maybe in the quiet of the night, when the world is still and everyone is asleep, maybe it's a little easier to listen because there are less distractions.

I know what God is saying to me, the same thing that he has been talking to me about for a while. Something that I struggle with. Not because it is a bad thing, but because he is asking me to do something that is far beyond myself. But that's often what God asks of us isn't it? He asks us to do things that make us uncomfortable. He asks us to stretch ourselves and puts us into places and situations that we cannot succeed at on our own. There, in that place, in that moment, we must completely rely on him to bring us to success. Pretty awesome right? But we must be obedient to his calling, we must be obedient to what he is asking us to do in order to have that victory.

So, what do your late night conversations with God look like? What is he asking you to do that goes far beyond what you are capable of on your own? If you say nothing, then you really aren't listening to him.

It's goodnight for me. Morning comes early in my house, but I have a feeling it's going to be an amazing day!