Final Fantasy games aren’t designed to be played through to completion in a single session… each title in the series contains a lengthy campaign that takes dozens of hours to play through before reaching its conclusion. To support players with playing the game through to completion, each mission is broken up into multiple “save points” that requires the player to intentionally stop what they are doing, find a save location, and save their progress. Sure, it’s inconvenient to stop what we’re doing to track down a save point instead of simply pressing forward, but this break in the action also forces us to intentionally pause and take time to heal, regroup, restock, and re-enter the battlefield in a better position than before.

In our real-world lives it is equally critical that we take the time to intentionally “pause our game” at multiple points in our daily missions, find a quiet “save point”, and spend some time regrouping in prayer with the Lord. Just as it would take a very reckless gamer to play a Final Fantasy game to the end without stopping to save, we only make an already challenging task more difficult by proceeding without praying continually for His guidance. Trying to play today’s game of life in our own strength is a fool’s errand… it’s only when we consciously bring the Lord into every aspect of our day that we make progress worth saving.

Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

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