«For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
and floods on the dry ground»
(Isaiah 44:3).
MEXICO CITY is sinking. According to an article published years ago in The New York Times, so much water has been pumped from the aquifer underneath the city to supply for the needs of its millions of inhabitants, that the soil is sinking at an alarming rate: about 33 feet in the last century. Has something similar happened to you in the spiritual and emotional sphere? Have you given so much to others that you have run out of energy? Do you feel dry, as if you had no more to give? How not to feel this way when we have so many demands everywhere we are: tending to our home, caring for our children, supporting our husband, going out to work, taking care of our parents, etc.
I want to bring to your attention something that’s vitally important: when you feel you can’t go on, that there is no more for you to give, remember that strength doesn’t come from you; God is the source of strength. Trouble comes up when we forget this. When you forget that the Lord is the One who gives you strength, you start depending on yourself; that is when you begin realizing you are emptying out. ‘Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength” (Isaiah 40:28, 29).
You become exhausted when you done let go of your burden, when you decide to walk on your our, testing your ability to resist until you collapse, and you slave away at endless tasks. You become exhausted because you cease to listen to God’s voice telling you, “Cast your cares on Me and I will hold you up.” Fill the fountain of your heart with water that comes from the very throne of God; when you do so, you’ll regain your strength.
At a spiritual retreat, there was someone walking among the crowd with a Bible and a pail. It was easy to understand why she was carrying a Bible, but what was the pail for? When I asked her, she smiled, pointed to a crack at the bottom, and answered, “The pain reminds me to draw all the living water I can.
The water leaks from my pail, just like it leaks from me, which reminds me I can keep on going to the Lord to look for more.” This is what I want you to do today: go to the Lord, in Him you’ll find the strength you lack.
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Take From: Daily Devotions for Women’s 2021
«BRUSHSTROKES OF GOD’S LOVE»
BY: Erna Alvarado Poblete
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Magda S
