When someone feels empty,
disconnected and depleted, enters through a dry season that quickly pushes the
person to live with pain and regrets. Irrespective of having surrounded
by friends, holding to a secure job, family, and relationships, the heart
longs for something the mind cannot define it. The current blessings seem
to be foggy. Charles Spurgeon puts it this way, "our anxiety does
not empty tomorrow of its strength, but only empties today of its
strength.". You need daily strength to exist and that includes
not only your physical energy, resources for the day, but to have enough
emotional and spiritual strength too. Augustine rightly pointed this out,
"because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until
they find they rest in Him.". Our spiritual needs are always
misunderstood as physical crisis. If we could only understand that our physical, emotional, and socio-economic
problems are deep rooted in spiritual issues.
People generally expect things to happen in a particular way based on their expectation and get disappointed when it doesn’t happen that way. And eventually such people get emotionally tired and go through a dry season. Our heart misleads, misinterprets the good things we have and increases the regret over broken expectations and failed opportunities. What is one supposed to do in times like this? Count your blessings, find out what you have that sustains you this long, and learn to trust GOD who can see your future. The writer in one of the books in the Bible raises this question, “What do you have that God hasn’t given you? …” Everything we have including life is God’s gift.
We usually expect things should happen quickly to the speed of our anticipation. And our expectations are generally based on what we can see and how far we could see. But we fail to comprehend that it doesn’t work that way all the time. The Bible emphasises on faith and trust in God. It says, "For we walk by faith, not by sight.". The moment one thinks that he/she is losing years waiting and longing for things to happen, disappointment grows, and faith becomes a silly exercise.
It's not worth trying to waste all our energy and resources to achieve our losses today, hoping it will save the future. The standard of good life is erratic. It will never be stable, as long as we live on this earth. The needs and demands shift every time and keep increasing always.
Find your purpose
and the means will follow. When your purpose is to know God and have a
meaningful fellowship with Him then you will find clarity, peace, happiness in where
you are and in what you do. Most of us always misunderstand the purpose of living
to things that we can hardly hold on to for a longer period of time. People
define a basic good life to their current situation and expectations hoping
that will last but when that exhausts, they pursue the next level of their
anticipation. Hold on! Trust God. Jesus, calls to all those who are tired is
constant all the time. He said, “come to me all who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest.”. One of the scriptures speaks about God's
faithfulness profoundly, "the Lord will fulfil his purpose for
me...". You are in His hands. Synchronize your thoughts find your
purpose. These words in the scripture is not only soothing and assuring but
leading too.
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