Burnt out . . . ?  Really?

Burnt out . . . ?  Really?

Do you ever just get tired and just say ‘I don’t feel like praying today.’  ‘I’m tired, I’m just gonna get caught up on Facebook instead.’  Lately, I’ve felt that burnt out feeling.  I know I shouldn’t feel that way, but I do.  I have no reason for it, and I should certainly be ashamed of it.

I am ashamed of it.

Did you ever notice that some of the kindest, happiest, humblest,  lovingest (Yes. I know that’s not a real word)  Christian people you will ever meet are the ones who have been afflicted with serious illness or injury, who have been abused, beaten, lied to, suffered, faced the scariest, most horrific things in life?  Yet their devotion to God is unshakeable.  Their spirits are unquenchable.  And their JOY is endless.

These people have had ‘everything’ in the world thrown at them and they are still the same if not the more saintly person.  And they NEVER get ‘Burnt out’.

How can that be?

Perhaps why you and I sometimes get that ‘burned out’ feeling is that we take our faith for granted.  We take God for granted.  We take our ability to be Christians and our ability to freely worship for granted.  If I had undergone the hard times these other people went through perhaps I would sing a different tune and march to a different drum.  Don’t get me wrong!  I don’t want to go through those hard times!  I do not want to be in the eye of that storm!

(Yes.  I admit it.  I am afraid of those things.  Just like everyone else is.)

I did not pass through that spiritual fire, that crucible of life.  Instead, I was ‘given’ the opportunity to accept Christ, and I did. 

All I had to do was open my heart.   I am so blessed. 

But I shouldn’t be afraid of that storm.  For Christ is with me.  My God is with me and he will never forsake me. 

I don’t know why I have been spared those terrible things.  But God does, and it is indeed a blessing to know that he loves me and has a use for me in his great plan. 

Like Jarred said today and I will very loosely paraphrase his wonderful testimony;  Tomorrow is Eclipse Day and it will also be the 25^th Anniversary of the Day I lost my sight . . .  God could heal me, but he hasn’t.  Instead he has used me to help others.  It is a blessing just to be used.

Amen, Jarred it is a blessing indeed.

I think tomorrow I shall skip Facebook and say a prayer.