Are you Worn and Tired? God knows…

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My tears have been my food day and night,

while they say to me all the day long,

“Where is your God?”

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul:

how I would go with the throng

and lead them in procession to the house of God

with glad shouts and songs of praise,

a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my salvation

– Psalm 42:3-5

 I have found that so often what I focus on, what I magnify, will become all I see. It will fill my vision. So, if I focus on the dust mites, they will become larger and larger and eclipse my view of God. If I focus on God and HIS goodness, awesomeness, love and the joy that I know he intends for me to have in him, then I know the dust mites of life fade in significance. They are still there, but the power of my God puts everything in their proper perspective.

That said, sometimes it can minister to the deep places of the soul to know that we aren’t alone in our sadness.  I believe this is one reason why the Psalms include so many gut-wrenching, honest laments. And the book of Jeremiah, followed by the book of Lamentations, lets us know that God’s people may experience grief. It is ok to be sad and to bring it to him.

This video shares a song that does this very thing. In it, the songwriter brings his despair, sadness, tiredness to God. He points out that there is one thing that he knows…and that is he needs to lift his eyes. He is too tired to do even that. Have you felt that way?

“Worn”

I’m Tired I’m worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes
To keep on breathing
I’ve made mistakes
I’ve let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed
By the weight of this worldAnd I know that you can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have leftLet me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart
That’s frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
Cause I’m wornI know I need to lift my eyes up
But I’m too weak
Life just won’t let up
And I know that you can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have leftLet me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart
That’s frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
Cause I’m worn

My prayers are wearing thin
Yeah, I’m worn
Even before the day begins
Yeah, I’m worn
I’ve lost my will to fight
I’m worn
So, heaven come and flood my eyes

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart
That’s frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
Cause all that’s dead inside will be reborn

Though I’m worn
Yeah I’m worn

This song is available here at iTunes or here at Amazon.

How About You?

What do you do when you are feeling worn? What does God invite you to do? Are you willing? He waits.

Seeing My Way Clear

God is faithful.

God is worthy of trust.

God is good.

God is love.

These are things that the LORD is reinforcing to me personally, uniquely, specially, during this season in my life.

Thank you for your prayers!

That has meant so much to me and continues to.

When my eyes are on man–instead of God–and man is frail and wounded and hurting, then my way is in a fog and seems so unclear. As the person dear to me goes through turmoil–one hour feeling good about things, the next as if they had fallen off a cliff–as long as I lean on them for strength, meaning, and identity, I find myself paralleling their journey. Like a dumb sheep, I follow them right off the cliff.

Depression is tricky. When you love a depressed person, your journey can become just as challenging as theirs. God intends to be our everything.

He is drawing my gaze more and more to his lovely, loving face. There, I find peace, solitude, even in the midst of challenges.

I want to encourage you…seek His face. Fix your eyes on Jesus. My life–your life–is now hidden with Christ in God…


Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, 
set your hearts on things above, 
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 
For you died, and your life is now hidden 
with Christ in God. 
– Colossians 3:1-3