Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.(Psalm 95:10-11)
Restlessness must give anyone a serious concern about which urgent cure must be sought. Restlessness is evil, unhealthy and wicked. Yes! We may not have perceived it as something to be so described or decried but it’s certainly because many are uninformed and unaware of it despicable effect and consequence. Restlessness is a product of helplessness occasioned by a hapless lack of faith and courage to wrestle a situation and regain command of its control to one’s favor, profit and advantage.
Restlessness is a restive, disturbing, anxious or uneasy feeling about an imminent or pending negative event or activity. It is often motivated by the notice of a desperate situation concerning which there is no or insufficient means to redress or correct. It thrives and gains strength through correlating accounts of others or trends that heightens anxiety and murmurings about the immediate instance of the negative event occurring thereby obscuring the visage incidence of light at the end of the tunnel or permitting courage to unseat the unrest.
Restlessness is evil.
Beloved, God decries the restlessness of the Saint, He abhors and loathes the restive feelings among His people and judges it harshly. The children of Israel in course of journey through the wilderness to the land promised by God to settle them, they were much disquieted by the events and occasions that confronted them that they not only lost the promised rest; they lost their lives. This is the harsh and destructive consequence of a restless spirit. It always dies – eventually
Consider what God says about the Israelites, “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say: In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun (Numbers 14:27:30 NIV). Notice, God called them, “wicked community” that grumbled. We must learn from them that we may avoid their error and harness the paradise of rest they lost.
It’s uncanny that not much has changed since the time the travails of the Israelites was recorded, the same instances of fear and petrifaction still pervades all humans and sadly the immediate reaction of many has been reclusion to fear, restlessness and murmurings. These have consistently failed and foiled the answer to hope much needed or sought. We must quit being restless: complaining does no good but complicates issues. Faith in God is the sure and potent cure for the unrest of man’s spirit.
Consider what Jesus said about when one is faced with a “mountain” or challenging situations, “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them (Mark 11:23-24 NIV). Trust God and He shall make it good. AMEN!