Running back to the well...

Well this weekend I was able to get away from my busy schedule and get away with God. Our Next Generation staff hosted a staff get away to hear from the Lord and God really spoke to me in a huge way.

Well lately I have been in one of those modes where you are working hard, and so hard in fact that you find yourself just empty at the end of the day. I don't know if you have had any of these moments, but it is like the longer you work the more that is required of you and the more you are having to push through to get things done. I have been in one of these modes and I have been running on pure calling and personal ambition. But have ended up just simply tired and feeling worn thin. Anyway, I was given a word from John 4 and it is tells the story of Jesus at the well. He met this girl there and told her about the living water that He had that would quench your thirst forever. I have read this at least a dozen times, but when I read about this I think of someone that is lost and has no hope. And Jesus was saying to them to find their hope in Him, the Living Water. But this time, this word was for me. I wasn't digging deep in the well of Jesus' living water, I was digging deep into whatever I had left in me. See Jesus wasn't just asking her to dig deep for her salvation, but for her choices, her struggles, her life. This was exactly what I needed to hear. I need to constantly be digging deep into Jesus' living water. So many times I try to muster up enough of my own energy, my own strength, my own determination, that I forget to drink of the living water. Instead I end up worn, tired, and even more thirsty than before.

I don't know about you, but I want to lead from Jesus' living water. I can't do life and especially the work of the ministry on my own, I need something of Christ's strength that gives me the joy, peace, and strength to do His work. God has gifted me with many things, but instead of running into these places of personal struggle, I want to run back to the well, to draw DEEP from His LIVING WATER.