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“My people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer Me.” Micah 6:3
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, that can hold no water.”
Jeremiah 2:13
Key thought of the day
As we come to realize our own helplessness and Christ’s abundant love, let us continue to drink from the Living Water and not our own broken cisterns.
I must be aware of two kinds of weariness in my life as a disciple. The first is the weariness of giving out faster than I take in. That is the weariness of over commitment; it is the fatigue of being over exercised in my service to God for others. The second kind of weariness is more subtle; it is the weariness of God Himself. Micah refers to this when he points his fingers at the Israelites: “ My people… how have I wearied you?” (6:3).
As a disciple, I will discover that my life will be a series of emptying and fillings. As I empty myself in service, I must refill myself by drawing upon God’s infinite resources. If I fail to refill, I will become drained and exhaustion will occur. One of the chief reasons I fail to refill is because I have become tired of God. In other words, I have lost my desire to be filled by God.
It is inconceivable that I can exhaust a transcendent God. Therefore, weariness can only be a symptom that something has gone wrong with my pipeline to heaven. Either it is stopped up with something or it is broken or I simply do not exert myself to turn on the spigot. The latter occurs whenever I have discovered an interest that, for the moment at least, transcends my interest in God. Weariness in God usually begins with a wandering eye. That leads to a wandering heart, and soon I am off chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that seems momentarily delightful. It is in that stage of things that I become weary of God; He has lost His colour, His richness and His appeal to my heart. I am clearly on dangerous ground, and that is why God makes His strongest appeals to rekindle my appetite for Him. He asks me to deliberately surrender the trinkets for the gold; He begs me to give up the hewn fountains and get back to the flowing river of life (see Jeremiah 2:13).
Article from “Daily with the King” by W Glyn Evans
1. To be a man full of faith and faithfulness would require us to come before God every day and drink deeply from Him. Is your time with God a daily priority? And through the day, are you pre-occupied with Christ?
2. If we are not pre-occupied with Christ, other lesser things will pre-occupy us. Are there things that have distracted us from a whole-hearted devotion to God and make us weary of God, and make us less hungry for God?
