Can anything else be poured out???

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"The everlasting God . . . neither faints nor is weary" —Isaiah 40:28

Sometimes I look at all the hurting and desperate people around me...they seem so lost, so helpless in their pursuit for the ONE THING that will make the difference in their lives. I know that God has entrusted them into my life so that I might be the very expression of His love, grace, power and presence....but sometimes I just get overwhelmed with the task God has called me to. As I was driving in yesterday to worship and I began to think about all the different hurting/broken people just in the last week that God has brought into my life...and honestly I got very anxious... I drove in feeling like a huge weight was sitting on my chest. I began thinking God with so many people who are hurting and broken and who are in need of being restored and rescued...where do I begin? I cant do this...there is no way! I mean what else can I possibly give? What else can be poured out? Honestly I began to wrestle in my Spirit & with my flesh. I wanted to start making excuses as to why I can't do this or do that... I wanted to start chucking responsibilities and turn inward...just focus on myself, my wife and my boys! But then it hit me ... It not up to me!

The reality this morning is this ... God has simply called me to know him deeply and to make him known daily!!! God has called me to a life of being poured out! A life that is bound on the altar!!! A living sacrifice. It is interesting that when I am not willing to be bound on the altar daily how easily my flesh and desires want to release me from my duty & devotion to sacrificially serve Christ and others.

As I read a devotion this morning from Oswald Chambers "My Utmost for His Highest" I was struck with this statement that really encouraged my heart:

"The process of being made broken bread and poured-out wine means that you have to be the nourishment for other people’s souls until they learn to feed on God. They must drain you completely— to the very last drop. But be careful to replenish your supply, or you will quickly be utterly exhausted. Until others learn to draw on the life of the Lord Jesus directly, they will have to draw on His life through you. You must literally be their source of supply, until they learn to take their nourishment from God. We owe it to God to be our best for His lambs and sheep, as well as for Him."

Bottom line: As long as I will cling to Him and abide in Him and drink from His life daily ... then there will be an endless supply of His wine to be poured out into the lives of those God has placed into my life! So the question is... God what else can I pour out...the answer...whatever you've poured in!

Not Ashamed..Bill