When We Are Drained Down To Our Bones
Author: Pastor Pat Aman
Some days it just seems we get drained out. That has just how I have felt for a few weeks. And please do not tell me you have never felt that way! If you do I will come pray for you.
Your know at first we try to be strong; but then, as the stress continues, we find ourselves becoming fatigued and even to the point we would like to run away somewhere and scream.
It is at those moments that many of us begin to believe that our time of situation almost beyond hope.
I know I as for myself, I sometimes feel like Jeremiah in the Bible. He was called the “weeping prophet”, and was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the Books of Jeremiah, Kings and Lamentation.
Jeremiah talks to Father God about why?
“You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts. Yet you know me, Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter! How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.” “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?” Jeremiah 12:1-5
Gracious, right now I can see Father God saying, “I see, an I know the outcome. So, stop wearing yourself out. You just keep going forward and I will handle all your life’s ups and downs. If life is wearing you out now, how are you going to handle the abundance of blessings I have in store for you.?
Now of course we do know these scriptures are referring to Israel.
But, as I read them I feel Father God was speaking to me.
(Please read. the entire chapter 12 of Jeremiah, to learn more about Israel and any nation that does not obey the commandments of Father God. There had never been a nation that had ever experienced more sorrow than the nation of Israel.)
But you know in times of struggle, when we wondered – “Does God still care for us? Has He forgotten us? Is there no hope?” Yet the Lord has said to His people –
“Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God’? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted…but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:27-31
Please remember that Father God never grows tired or weary and He is always able to provide the strength we need.
So, when you feel you are about to fall flat on your face, that is when Father God can pick you up and turn your situation around.
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