I am still tired from my recent bout with an infection. I am still trying to build my strength back to where it was before I got sick. While sick, I did not eat the way I should eat because the antibiotic took away any appetite I might have had. I did not sleep well; I missed my morning devotion time because it was difficult to concentrate.
When the infection left, it took my strength and energy with it. It left weariness is its wake.
Weariness is a part of living in our fallen world. (I don’t think we will find even a trace of weariness in the next. I can only imagine that being in our glorified bodies in the presence of the Lord will be eternal energy and strength.)
When Jesus addressed the church at Ephesus in the Book of Revelation in the opening verses of chapter 2, initially He praised them … “You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name and have not grown weary.” [Vs 3 NIV]
While He will go on to admonish them for a few things, including forgetting their first love, His praise comes first and centers on their hard work and their perseverance. They did not grow weary in doing good and their reward was to have praise from the King of Kings. [Gal 6:9]
I imagine their bodies grew weary, just as our bodies grow weary, but I don’t think it is weariness of body to which Jesus is referring. It’s our attitudes – we need to make sure that our attitudes never weary of doing good. Then we, too, will have praise from our King.
