Worn Out

Worn Out

Charles Spurgeon is attributed with the quote:

“A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.”

This week at camp I was able to observe a very experienced preacher’s bible. It had been re-bound several times and what a fresh calf-skin cover was hiding were pages full of notes, highlights, and arrows connected passages together. It was humbling to see a Bible so well used and yet so cared for.

This week I was able to listen and speak with Christians of various levels of experience, most far beyond my own and it was refreshing! As the week of camp went on, a few times I was told, “You look tired!” (Who wants to hear that?). I kept wondering why I looked so tired and these older preachers, who should be faring worse than me looked to be handling it better; then, I remembered that Bible.

After a week of camp, we are worn out, but somehow full. We are exhausted, but excited. We have been tested, but have peace. It’s the nature of serving, being fully immersed in working for God always leads to this paradoxical feeling of being overstretched, but full.

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.”

1 Corinthians 4:7-10

I love you,