Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately?نموونە

Are You Going Through a Dry Spell?

Have you ever sat in church and watched those all around you getting blessed while you feel nothing? They cry; they pray; they worship with tremendous feelings. But you are not moved upon at all. You begin to wonder if there is something wrong with your spiritual life. 

I believe all true believers experience dry spells at various times in their Christian lives. Even Jesus felt the isolation when he cried aloud, “Father, why have you forsaken me?”

Without the nearness of God, there can be no peace. The dryness can be stopped only with the dew of his glory. The despair can be dispelled only by the assurance that God is answering. The fire of the Holy Ghost must heat the mind, body and soul.

Come to the water that satisfies that soul thirst. Come to the Father who pities his children. Come to the Lord of life who promises to forgive every sin committed. Come to the one who refuses to condemn you or forsake you or hide from you.

Nothing dispels dryness and emptiness more quickly than an hour or two shut in with God. Putting off that date with God in his secret closet causes guilt. We know our love for him should lead us into his presence, but we busy ourselves in so many other things; then time slips away, and God is left out. We throw in his direction a whole array of “thought prayers.” But nothing can take the place of that secret closet with the door shut, praying to the Father in that seclusion. That is the solution to every dry spell.

God sets before you a choice. His love demands a choice. If God supernaturally lifted us out of every battle without pain or suffering, it would abort all trials and all temptation; there would be no free choice and no testing as by fire. It would be God superimposing his will on mankind. He chooses to meet us in our dryness and show us how it can become the way into a new life of faith.

It is often according to the will of God that we suffer dryness and even pain. “Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator” (1 Pet. 4:19).

Thank God, suffering is always the short period before final victory!