Are you Exhausted Spiritually?

“Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faithteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of His understanding.” Isaiah 40: 28

Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies. Jesus said to Peter- “feed my sheep,” but He gave him nothing to feed them with. The process of being made broken bread and poured-out wine means that you have to be the nourishment for other souls until they learn to feed on God. They must drain you to the dregs. Be careful that you get your supply, or before long you will be utterly exhausted. Before other souls learn to draw on the life of the Lord Jesus direct, they have to draw on it through you; you have to be literally “sucked,” until they learn to take their nourishment from God. We owe it to God to be our best for His lambs and His sheep as well as for Himself.
Has the way in which you have been serving God betrayed you into exhaustion? If so, then rally your affections. Where did you start the service from? From your own sympathy or from the basis of the Redemption of Jesus Christ? Continually go back to the foundation of your affections and recollect where the source of power is. 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.”


This was amazing for me to read because it was something that I and a few of my friends and family have been going through. When it says in Isaiah that “his understanding has no limits” it’s so true. We get so upset sometimes when someone we are really close to doesn’t understand, but God ALWAYS understands how we are feeling at times. He is always there to be the shoulder to cry on as well as to encourage and admonish you. Because of Him we will not become weary. I was thinking about this and I realized why last semester was so hard for me, and it was because I was spiritually exhausted by all the things that weren’t just going on in my life but others lives as well that was draining me. One of the main reasons I got so drained was because I stopped going to the church services and reading consistency in my Bible. I needed to have that nourishment, I needed that kind of food to help me keep strong through all the things and people that were “sucking” me dry. Yet this semester things are so much better because I have more time with the Lord in the morning and twice a week in the prayer room and I try to go to all the services as well. The Lord knows that I am that type of person that needs the constant feeding or else I fall back.
I have to keep reminding myself that I am here to serve Christ and Him alone. He is the One that I serve for, and whatever I give everyone else, is not coming from me but from God. I want to keep remembering that He is the one that I do all for. And He is the One that gives me all my strength, and guidance. I want to be exhausted for Him and have Him replenish my thirsty soul when He is finished working through me.