Have you ever tried to plan a crisis in your schedule? I know it sounds crazy, but it would be nice if you had a list of the challenges and crises that you will experience over the next year so that you could plan them in. Maybe you would make sure they are spaced apart so that you have time to recover from them. Maybe you would put them on the next week so that you can get them over with or maybe near the end of the year so that you can be prepared.

No matter how hard you try, you cannot plan for the crises that come up. Let’s face it, crises not only cannot be planned, but they seem to hit you at the worst times and sometimes all at once. That is the worst part. They pile up and just when you think you have some breathing room, something else hits hard and knocks you off your feet.

“God, can’t I have a break!” Does that sound familiar? You are not the only one. In Psalm 3, David starts out with a similar cry. He is looking around him and realizing how the crises seem to outnumber him. In fact, others are questioning if he will even make it out of all of it. David cries out to God, and then he sleeps.

David was able to sleep! Right in the middle of all the crises, he found rest and peace because he knew that God was his salvation and strength. It’s easy to look around us and see all the junk that is piling up around us and be overwhelmed, but in that same moment, God wants us to rest in Him. He knows about the junk and crises. We need Him and it is the crises that help us to see we need Him.

You may be dealing with some hard things right now, but I can promise you that God knows and God cares.