burnout!

burnout!
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 

I can still remember the old tin lamps we used back in the day when we would visit my grandmother. Some people still use them in the slums; I think we called them koroboi. They had a wick that you lit up and as long as you had oil in the lamp all was well.

The oil would burn as it sipped through the wick. The moment you ran out of oil the wick would continue to burn but it would start to BURN OUT. As long as am living on the oil of the Holy Spirit then I will not burn out, So can you smell the smoke this morning?

Are you busy busy busy yet you are running on an empty tank? Have you let the weight of the world settle on your shoulders? Are you disappointed that the world is not giving you rest and happiness?

Trust the Lord to give you His joy this morning. The world has nothing it can offer you. Some of us think that activity means progress and that we are in God's will and so we move from one thing to another and we try and make things happen in our own strength; your wick is burning out.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that working hard is wrong, No, we all must work hard but in doing so we must depend on God to be the strength of our life and we should be sensitive enough to know when to take a rest.

Are you busy trying to build God's church this morning? Maybe you are a pastor or a pastor’s wife or a church leader. Being a pastor myself I know how much we sometimes get under pressure to GROW the church because the more people we have the more successful we look.

Numbers are not necessarily a measure of success. Jesus said in Matt 16:18 that He will build His church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Christ will build His church not you so take a time out, and let Him do it. The Church will not collapse because you took a rest; you are burning out take a break.

Are you too busy to go to the house of God, are you too tired to pray, and are you not able to find the time to read the word? Does your job come first so that you even work weekends?

My friend your wick is burning out that is why the smoke is chocking you. You need to face up to the things that are demanding your attention and emotional energy, prioritize your time with God and see things begin to change.

The oil never runs out as long as there was an empty vessel. If your wick is burning out and the smoke is choking you, slow down take a time out and spend time with God allow Him to fill you with the oil of His Spirit and your wick will not burn out.