Psalm 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

Have you ever been involved in running long distances, like a marathon or half marathon in boiling temperatures?

It is one thing to run long distances in cool weather but something entirely different to run in very hot and humid weather; your body feels totally drained long before it should!

Now take that feeling of your physical self and apply it to your spiritual self by thinking of a time when you starved yourself of God’s comfort because you were too busy doing something else.

During a long run you have to take on water or you will faint. During a spiritual drought you need to take on God’s water or you will faint!

Psalm 30:6 Now in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.”

How easy it is to rejoice when things are going just the way we want them to. How easy it is to say thank you when someone does something nice for us…

But how difficult is it to look for the good in things when all around you is crumbling and falling apart. How difficult is it to really say thank you when what was given to you was not what you wanted?

God continues to supply our needs which do not always line up with our wants… But we need to recognise they come from God for a reason and for our needs.

Will you remember God even when things go wrong?

2 Timothy 2:24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

Everyone expects Christians to be good and do the right thing all the time, right? Well we should know by now that is not possible!

Being a Christian in a twisted world can be very difficult; but with God on our side we do have a mentor who is always righteous.

Us trying to keep close enough to Him is the part we have to struggle with so inevitably we will come up against things which we do not agree with.

Don’t jump in and cause an argument because that is not going to lift anyone up, but be patient, gentle and kind and try to teach others in a respectful manner.