Physically Exhausted - You Need Rest - Spiritually Exhausted - You Need God

My Utmost For His Highest

The everlasting God…neither faints nor is weary. —Isaiah 40:28

{CHAMBERS} “Exhaustion means that our vital energies are completely worn out and spent. Spiritual exhaustion is never the result of sin, but of service. Whether or not you experience exhaustion will depend on where you get your supplies. […] The process of being made broken bread and poured-out wine means that you have to be the nourishment for other people’s souls until they learn to feed on God. […] Continually look back to the foundation of your love and affection and remember where your Source of power lies. You have no right to complain, “O Lord, I am so exhausted.” He saved and sanctified you to exhaust you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply. “All my springs are in you” (Psalm 87:7).”

{ELGIN} While we were in Haiti, I had the occasion to speak to some folks from the U.S. who were living and serving in Haiti.  From their conversations I could see that they were not happy, discouraged, complaining about their circumstances and the people. Sensing that some of them had an immature faith and others might not have faith at all, I told them that if they had come to Haiti and God had not called them there, they should go home.  Serving in Haiti was too difficult to be doing it on your own.  There is nothing that God you do in the name of the Lord that you can do on your own.  Romans 12:1 describes our serving as a “spiritual act of worship”.  Doing something because of compassion is not wrong, but doing something spiritual in the strength of your flesh is impossible.  When you are ministering to someone, it is easy to begin to resent them because of the very reason you were sent to them.  That is a clear indication that you have shifted from relying on God to relying on yourself.  (Philippians 4:13) “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength” and I can do nothing, on my own that pleases God, aside from obeying Him by faith. (Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:17)  We have nothing to offer but a broken and contrite heart.  And that is exactly what God wants.