At the End of Your Rope

Weariness and discouragement seem to be running rampant among our community this week.  I'm so sorry, friends.  Although I am not at that place now, I vividly recall being there.  When you're just at the end of your rope.  When you fight back tears every time someone asks you how you're doing.  When it becomes difficult to put a smile on your face.  When you wonder if this (fill in the blank - it's different for each of us) will ever end.  When your child has been demonstrating the same frustrating behavior for months and you've tried everything to no avail.  When you're so frustrated with your child's teacher(s) because they just won't listen to you.  When you're filled with guilt and feeling like you've ruined your family.  The list goes on...

I am praying from Ephesians 3:14 - 21.

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

If you are coming up empty at the end of a long, exhausting, wearisome, discouraging week, I pray that you would draw upon God's infinite resources.  His strength, His power, His love.  Let Him fill you with all of His person, all of His characteristics, all of His attributes.  I'm praying that we would each be filled with all the fullness of God.  That's quite a lofty thought, isn't it?

He is able, friends.  Able to do more than we can even begin to imagine.

He is able.  And that's enough.