I came across this passage in my women's Bible last week...and it spoke to me. I am at that point in the year where I just want all schedules and commitments to cease. I'm ready to embrace summer and all it's long, unstructured days ahead. Here's the devotion:
"Feeling burnt out, disillusioned, exhausted or lonely? At some point on the road of life we all hit "empty." When it happens to you, it's time to pray Paul's prayer - and expect God to answer it.
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ask God to strengthen your inner self - because only Christ can fill the emptiness in your heart. Ask God to help you grasp a measure of his immeasurable love your you - experience it your self so that you may be filled with the fullness of God. His unfathomable love is always the renewing antivote for burnout. It may take time, but God will answer."
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