place of nathan.

This weekend as I was leading worship at New Hope, I was looking at people in the seats, trying to engage them in worship as I always do.
But something different happened this weekend…I looked directly at a lady, and she was yawning. She covered her mouth nicely, but still, I saw her yawn.
That made me want to yawn myself. I had to concentrate very hard on singing and not yawning. Everything in me wanted to yawn. (As I type this in today, I just yawned!). I had this inner battle in my mind, ‘I need to yawn right now.’ ‘No you don’t.’ ‘Yeah, I feel the urge.’ ‘No, look away and move on.’

It wasn’t just an easy move on for me. I looked away, and yet I still felt the strong urge to yawn.

I think a lot of times in our walk with God, we see things or hear things which we shouldn’t participate in, and we are faced with that same inner struggle. Do we give in and ‘yawn’, or do we fight? Resisting the urge is never easy. So what do we do? What do you do to resist the urge to ‘yawn’ when you shouldn’t?

Tags: choice, decision, desire

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