Drawing Strength For The Days Ahead

Where do you draw strength today.

What draws you forward?

Filling us with living water. A water that runs clean and washes away the dirt and the doubt.

Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened,

and I will give you rest.

MATTHEW 11:28 NIV

I know as widows, sometimes life can seem too quiet or even too loud. Times when you are feeling depleted or flat and other times when it seems there is so much to do and you're not sure you can get it all done. We either stand by the side of life not wanting to get too involved or we end up taking on more than we need too. Some things are our own comprehension, and others are dropped on us.

The burdens of life, disappointments and discouragement were never meant for us to carry. But to give up to the Lord.

He tells us to come unto Him all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. His promise is to give us peace and rest but this can only happen if we give up what is not ours to carry. If we relinquish our right to hold on to the past. If we allow Him to bear our burden.

We cannot change our past. We cannot change what we have done wrong, or the wrongs done to us.

If we continue to carry the burden, healing will not come because we are not casting our cares on Him.

But what we can do is give Him every burden, every worry, and hold every thought captive before it leads us the wrong the direction.

Like the woman at the well. She went out every day, carrying her jar (her burdens, her wrong doings) to the well in hopes of drawing water from the well. Every day she went, drew water and carried it back home. Carrying that jar every day. Hauling it back and forth every day.

Until the day she carried that jar one last time to the well. That day she met Jesus at the well. He told her of the things she had done. He knew her faults. And yet. He called her to draw water from the living well. Water that would quench her thirsty soul, that would bring relief, that would lessen her burden, that would never run dry. He didn't condemn her; He came to heal her.

She received from Jesus that day and gave up her loss, her cares, and her wrongs, and left them at the well, at the feet of Jesus where the water never runs dry. She left the well that day without her jar, without her burden. Hurrying to tell everyone what just happened. Now full of hope.

That is available to all who will only accept Him as Lord and Savior and receive what He has to offer.

He loves you that much!

He sees you, and He knows you.

You are not alone.

You are special.

Will you receive Him in His fullness today?

If so, just repeat this prayer:

Lord, I submit to you. To Your purpose, plan and way for my life. Thank you for always being with me and releasing me from everything that the enemy has tried to use to hold me back. I trust you to lead me in the way I should go and I receive by faith all you have done, doing and yet to do in my life. I am Yours. I thank you that You are mine. I love you, Lord.