When sleep is the first thing you sacrifice

Transformation involves renewing the mind instead of conforming automatically.

Romans 12:2

When sleep is the first thing you sacrifice. It is easy to sound spiritual until this is the thing sitting in front of you. Sometimes nothing outside you changes first. A different response is evidence that the old script is not in charge. What begins as comfort can become control when choice slowly disappears. Let Christ retrain what repetition has made automatic. Give truth a chance to interrupt what usually happens next. The next chapter can begin with a different response.

Where has fear turned into an attempt to manage the outcome? How could you remain responsible without trying to become sovereign?

Jesus Christ, interrupt the part of me that wants to react before listening to truth. Give me enough courage to make one different, obedient choice. Amen.