A dry and weary land

I had an amazing quiet time with God today. I wish I could say this is a daily thing, but it is not. I was reading over Psalm 63 in the 5:00am hour and it said “in a dry and weary land where there is no water”. I realized (God helped me to!) that this whole world is a dry and weary land and even if we are not a desert; we are all thirsty.

As an American, we have everything we could ever need and more (many in my current country have much less than we could ever imagine) and we are still dry and thirsty.

There will be kids that are not thankful this Christmas because they didn’t get the present they wanted. Their whole day will be shot. They may be mad all Christmas Day. This may be my children!

Many children, even American kids, don’t even know that Jesus is the reason for the season. We are a dry and weary land. God also revealed that even though he’s in my life, I am dry and weary right now. I am not relying on him as much as I can. And it shows. It shows in my attitude. It shows in my relationships. And it shows up every morning when I am trying to get children ready for school and instead of being calm, I yell. I don’t want that. I don’t want to yell. I want peace. I don’t have it, but God does. I really want to make it a daily thing to have time with God. However, I am a little scared of this, too, if I work daily to give everything over to God and really hear from him. I am giving up control and that is not my nature. Then again, God has a better nature in store for me - if I can handle it! I have asked him to make me able to be up to this challenge.