Make the Cell Phone Lie Down
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★YOU WALK around using your cell phone all day. All day talking to this person, talking to that person, and getting stuff done. But at the end of the day, if you want to use that cell phone tomorrow, you’ve got to make it lie down.
You’ve got to connect it to the charger, so that it can get new energy, new power, and new strength. If you don’t make the cell phone lie down, it won’t work for you tomorrow. If you don’t force it to lie down, you will not be able to receive or send out a signal. It is absolutely critical that you make the cell phone lie down, if you want to restore the power of the battery.
If you don’t make it lie down, it won’t work. If God doesn’t make us lie down, we won’t work. We’ll expend all of our energy, all of our strength, and will try to make it work when all of our battery will be gone.
We’ll still try to stay up and make it work some more. God does His best work when His children are asleep.
When we lay our cell phones down, they can’t just be put anywhere. They must be connected to the power source and charged. It is only when the cell phone is in the right place, connected to the right source, that it receives new life.
The point
Just as phones need charging to restore power, believers need rest and connection to God to be effective; God's best work happens when we sleep.
