I slept like a log last night. I was completely exhausted. Sometime during the game I got a several inch long cut on my arm. It was a tough game. It will be useless to try to accomplish much today. I’m still too high. The Saints are the Champions of the world. It’s a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience and the exhaustion and exhilaration are intense and simultaneous.
It’s not a completely unknown feeling. It feels very much like the days after completing a Kairos weekend. That experience is also exhilarating and exhausting. There is a feeling of having been spiritually used up. And that is a good and appropriate thing. It is what we are created for. It’s our purpose after our salvation: to be completely used by God.
Recently after a period of great productivity in my life; I realized that the cycle of waking in the morning excited and motivated to get things done and the evenings feeling almost too tired to move, is the right and natural way of living.
But remember that it is crucial that exhaustion is part of a cycle of refreshment, pouring out, and exhaustion. A balance in our spiritual life is crucial. We need to work; but we need our times of refreshment. He saved and sanctified you in order to exhaust you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. “All my fresh springs shall be in Thee.”
Work, be exhausted, spend time with Him, be refreshed and
Be blessed.
Nick
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