There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters.

You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.