What do People do when they need some TLC? Here is a top 20 list of things people do when they need some TLC –
- Eat Chocolate
- Treat myself to good food
- Drink a hot cup of tea
- Sit in favorite chair with a book
- Watch reruns of childhood cartoons
- Listen to good music
- Eat a tub of ice cream
- Take a hot bath or shower
- Have a non-people day
- Go to the gym
- Clean your areas – bedroom, office, living room, shop, shed, garage
- Tinker with a project
- Go for a walk outside
- Go shopping
- Call a friend
- Go out with a friend
- Shut Phone off
- Go home
- Get away from work
- Get away from responsibility
That is a pretty comprehensive list, and to be honest we do one or many of those for ourselves. Truth is we all need some R&R and some TLC. Cause we get busy in life especially if you are active in serving the Lord. The greatest tired you can get is a tired in the service of God! There is not a better feeling than coming home after a big day at your church or bus like a Picnic Saturday on bus, and for weeks you have prepped, preached, promoted. It all culminates on that day and it is a great success! People got saved, lives were changed, food was eaten – all in all it was awesome, but it makes for a long day. Now you’re tired. You go home, kick up your feet, and think about the day – that’s a great tired! Serving the Lord is the greatest life you can live!
But we all get tired in DOING THINGS –
Galatians 6:7-10 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
I have heard many many sermons from these verses. Challenges from you reap what you sow to do good! As I was studying this verse something became very interesting, and I had never really seen it in this way until I started studying the life of David. In 2 Samuel 11 – David sins. Probably the most known things about David is he killed a giant, became king, and sinned with Bathsheba! But what lead up to the sin? How did David go from serving God to living in sin?
2 Samuel 11:1 “And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.”
It was the end of an old year and the start of a new one. David needed some TLC
He got…
- Tired.
- Dude had been fighting for years! Fighting battles. Winning. Victory after victory and just got tired. In the previous two chapters he was at some spiritual high points of his life.
- When it was his time to go in chapter 12. He took a day off!
- He wasn’t doing wrong. He had been fighting the Battles for the Lord!
- He had asked God what to do and God had answered and blessed
- He just got tired.
- THIS IS A DANGEROUS SPOT! And we all get there!
- Disciples of Jesus got there! – Their hearts were hardened – they had just witnessed the miracle of the 5000 being fed! How – cause they got tired.
- Lustful
- 100% of what David wanted and was looking for was for himself to consume. Not help his spirit. But for his flesh
- 90%, and truth is it may be closer to 100%, of what you do when you need a break. Is for the flesh.
- We go on vacation have fun, eat, watch, do brainless stuff. Don’t read our Bible every day, don’t pray once, barely even want to go to church on a Wednesday night. 👀
- Cause we have fed our flesh only. And it needed refreshed! But we didn’t learn to strengthen our Spirit!
- You did all the fun and food and but you added nothing to your spiritual self!
- You get back and body feels good but your spirit is terrible and miserable! You still of all those problems. Burdens. Trials.
- That’s why you don’t want to come back. “Ugghhh I hate school.” “Do we have to do this?” “Why?”
- This isn’t just for vacation either think about your every day life – when you get home you just want to do stuff for yourself. Your first thought isn’t God what do you want me to do? Christianity shouldn’t be checked out at the door of your house! That’s where you should be the most spiritual cause your family is striving to live for God!
- That’s why you watch movies and TV shows – Listen to Broadway instead of
- Which shows because all our references become based off of TV, Pop stars, Musicians, and our Looks are based off of Worldliness rather than to Glorify God!
- And we get back in the saddle and when we should be the most ready to go – we are the most least ready to Go. And you get tired cause your spirit is tired – then you Fail – then you Quit.
- That’s when David QUIT –
- Nah Joab you go! – David Didn’t ask God. Didn’t once talk to God. Didn’t repent. Didn’t restore. HE WAS MISERABLE – He wasted a year of his life – in misery
- Don’t waste 2025 – living for the lust of the flesh!
- Complacent
- He looked back at the year. Reflecting on success and past victories – cause he had a lot. He thought – I can take a day off. Man I had a great year! This year I’m just going to coast. No plans. No purpose. No problems.
- He had no reason to go. Even though it was his time to go, and he was supposed to go. He thought, “I’ll just let Joab go! He’s got this. I have already done a lot.”
- He maxed out.
- Teenagers look back at their teen years. I made it. I’m still in church. I went soul-winning every week. I went on a bus all my life. I think I’ll just take this year off. Then they take 2, then 3, then 10. The most spiritual time in their lives was their teenage years. Their soulwinning stories are all from the past!
- No drive or desire! You had it once. A drive and a desire means you have to do something! You have to work to achieve! You have to yield to God.
- I’m good – I did some good things last year.
- Its my senior year I’ve done enough. I’m doing stuff still. Every once in a while at least.
- We get complacent and stop going to choir. Don’t go bus visiting. Replace soulwinning with school work. Sports becomes a priority over God – cause you did enough – all of a sudden you become a Lukewarm Christian.
David wasted a whole year – living in guilt. Sin. Unforgiveness. Depression. Adultery. Murder.
What he needed was some true TLC which he got in PS 51
- Turned. – He repented. He turned from his sin. What will ruin a year and maybe your lifetime is living in sin. You cannot live the Christian life living in sin! It is miserable! It’s unrewarding! You cannot survive in sin!
- Leaned – During the whole chapter of Ps 51, he didn’t just ask God for help. He said God You do! Like You have complete control. and in Vs. 12 he leaned wholly on God – “uphold me”. He got close to God and leaned on Him. He trusted fully on God. He gave up himself cause he had nothing. He stopped leaning on his own talents and knowledge and just got close
to God! - Cried – He was broken. Had a broken spirit. He cried. He cried to God! It’s ok to be broken to God! Many times we cry to others, Friends, Facebook, but we forget that God wants us to cast our cares on Him for He careth! God gives forgiveness. God can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities – so CRY TO GOD. Don’t just put your mess in a dress or your lies in ties. David tried to cover up his sin, but he just wasted a year of his life in miserable guilt, and truth be told it could have been the rest of his life if Nathan hadn’t come to him!
- Cleansed – He asked God to purge and cleanse him.
- Continued – he didn’t quit. He got back up! Didn’t let a wasted year ruin his life!
Proverbs 18:14 “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?”
Don’t waste this year with an unbearable spirit!
Romans 8:26-39 “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities (physical or mental weakness.): for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? (The infirmities, the tiredness, the world) If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded (in a state of fixedness on an idea or purpose to which one cannot move from, Convinced, Sure.), that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sometimes we get so caught up in giving our flesh R&R that all we do is feed it! Music, Movies, Fun, Things – ALL FOR ME! Just feeding the Flesh.
Do you ever Feed your spirit – Maybe the reason your miserable is cause your spirit is starving.
Don’t let anything keep you from God! Because nothing can or will keep God and His Love from you – except for YOU!
When David turned and repented God’s love and forgiveness was right there waiting to restore his soul. How many times have we just got tired and only fed our flesh, then realized we had drifted away from God in our carnality and now were living in sin? Don’t ruin this year living in a life of sin and regret – If you’re tired turn to God not to the world! Don’t just feed your flesh either make sure you feed your spirit, because we all get tired.
Caleb Young | YP
Clays Mill Road Baptist Church
