Do you ever feel like you are just drained emotionally? Like your entire spirit is depleted? Like, dare I say, too emotionally zapped to even pray? 🙋🏼♀️
Life can be so exhausting, even when there are no major life events taking place. Just living in a sin soaked world is exhausting, and adding in all the complications of life can bury you emotionally.
When I find myself with a depleted spirit, it is usually because I have attempted to face a challenging circumstance alone. It is usually when I have worked myself silly to figure out my life without consulting the One who gave me life.
Emotions and feelings can be so overwhelming, so hard to navigate, and feel so lonely. The heaviness of it all can feel like a gravity in and of itself. Sometimes a depleted spirit can lead you to feel like God isn’t with you or God isn’t working. It can cause you to question why God would allow such pain and hurt.
The truth is “God will never leave you or forsake you”—Hebrews 13:5.
The truth is “in this world you will have much trouble”—John 16:33.
The truth is “all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord”—Romans 8:28.
Our circumstances aren’t tied to the goodness of God and our feelings have zero to do with the truth of God. When our fickle feelings overrun the truth we know about God, it can easily lead to a confusing season of doubt.
We absolutely must hang on to the biblical truths we know, and press through our circumstances with the peace of God, knowing we aren’t alone.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
II Corinthians 4:16-18
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