WFW: Check Your Tanks

Do you ever feel like this? Bone tired. Weary. Exhausted. If one more person asks you to do one more thing... Everybody has felt this way.

When I start to feel this way, I usually find that I have let my gas tank run dry. Not the one in my car, but the one that God installed in me at birth. My spiritual gas tank. The one that can only be filled by God. I need to put on the brakes, pull into a parking spot and spend time with God.

There is nothing like pouring a cup of coffee and having a chat with my Savior through prayer. I often wonder if my new neighbors think I am loony. Sitting on my couch talking "to myself". God is with me all the time. Why wouldn't He be sitting in my living room listening to me as I drink my morning coffee? I enjoy the silence of my home and I talk to Him and pour out my heart. Prayer doesn't have to be thee's and thou's with eyes closed. I wouldn't talk to my earthly BFF that way so I am certainly not going to talk to my heavenly BFF that way.

Picking up my Bible and reading for nuggets of hope, help and encouragement. Some days it may be a chapter and some days it may only be a verse. I wait for His "bump". It is almost like a double take that makes me say, "what did that say?". Sometimes I am surprised to read something that I have read all my life and actually see it for the first time. It is like God says, "Now you are ready."

Our weeks are busy and there are definitely times when we get weary, but God has given us a promise. "We shall reap.... if we faint not!"

Check your tanks!