🙌 It's the Friday Call to Worship! 🙌

My soul got tired this week. Kindness and gentleness escaped me. Instead, my mind flipped and flopped, desperately seeking an anchor for my soul.

It's in the aftermath, after we've spent ourselves and prayed our most faith-filled prayers, where the prowling enemy's voice slinks in to our tired souls. Our guards aren't up. We're not pounding down the doors of heaven for a huge miracle. We're cleaning up, caring, and doing the very practical things we were created to do.

Nehemiah put himself in the throes of a seemingly insurmountable problem. His rebuilding project was massive, and enemies were coming against him to stop it. Nehemiah 4 tells us that, when the enemy showed up, they kept going. They worked with a weapon in one hand and a tool in the other. He did what seemed impossible in the presence of his enemies - in 52 days.

Souls, don't get tired. As you rebuild, re-hope, and try to learn life a new way, keep a weapon in one hand while you work with the other. It won't slow you down. It will propel you from glory to glory, strength to strength - higher, further and stronger than we could dream, think or imagine. Saturate your soul with the good stuff today.

Don't drop your weapon. Don't drop your hope. Just lean in harder to the One who holds you now and forevermore. Listen to Stephen McWhirter's "Grave Clothes" to remind you of God's powerful love.