How to Overcome Exhaustion

Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

  As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
    they make it a place of springs;
    the autumn rains also cover it with pools.

They go from strength to strength,
    till each appears before God in Zion.

 Psalm 84:5-7

      My blog used to be titled Gypsy Pilgrim, mostly because I loved all things gypsy and I felt like a pilgrim. I have outgrown this love of gypsy things but the pilgrimage remains. Every day is a journey: from here to there, from low to high, and most importantly, from selfish, carnal me...to a righteous, holy God. 

    It is so easy for me to fall back on my own strength. To hold back and hole up. To be caught up in a valley that I can not see the glorious height of that mountain. My pastor preached a sermon this last Sunday about exhaustion and the giant that it is. I have become blinded by that silly giant, have you? He rumbles around and wears us down with the busyness of life. The devil knows that he has no real weapons to defeat us, but in his arsenal is everything to get us to give up. But I will go from strength to strength, victory to victory. I won't let the valley be a desert place, when God promises to cause our tears to become springs! "Baka" means weeping in Hebrew. When all we can do is cry, He promises to make our tears a place of refreshing. 

     I will set my heart to continue the journey. To hold nothing back. To press on to the mountain and be refreshed in my pursuit.