Dry Place

I have been gone for a good wile, and though all of my time away wasn't all bad I reached a dry place. So many of us are so high and mighty we act like we don't get dry sometimes, like we don't reach dry places. I am not saying that God stops talking to you (which He will and can do) I am saying just get to a place where you feel like the well has run DRY. Notice I said YOU FEEL LIKE.

Matthew 11:27-28 says:
28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

So we come and we labor and then we expect the rest right? What we fail to realize is it says take my Yoke( To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.) upon you and learn for Me. Now there are many definitions of the word "Yoke" but this one best fit. How many of us are joined and stay joined. How many of us are intimately connected to Christ? It goes on to say "for I am gentle and lowly in heart" Is that you , because that is surely not me. Lowly is humble and I know that is an area where God needs to work on me. So the rest is promised when we have joined with Christ in an intimate relationship and when we humble ourselves. God can no work in us if we think of ourselves higher than we ought to.

2 Chronicles 7:14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Are you of His people, do you really believe you belong to God. Some of us say " I am a child of the most high God," but do you really believe it. Do you walk it, talk it, and live it? Some say it's too hard I just can't and maybe you can't on your own but Philippians 4:13 says- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. You have to believe on Christ and in His power and in Him crucified. So I ask do you really believe or are we just talking? Pray ask God to give you strength through Chirst not of your own.

We must decrease, we must die unto ourselves so that Christ may increase in us. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10says- 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. That is saying when we are feeling weak like we just need to give up and throw in the towel. We are strong in Him. That's when He steps in when we need to stand and having done all stand.

Once we have truly surrendered all given it all to Christ not taken it back but given it to Him who can handle it. Once we humble ourselves and realize we can do nothing in and of ourselves but only through Him will we find rest for our souls. I leave you with this:

John 7:37-38
37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”