Ever felt like this...?

Do you ever feel completely dry and cracked? Like there is just nothing left inside you to give? Barren. Like no matter what anyone does for you or says to you, it will never be enough to make the cracks go away? To smooth the roughness? To make you less fragile, so you won't crumble at the first sign of trouble? Sometimes I feel like this. Like anything positive I hear or do just slips away through the cracks. It's so hard to give when life is like this. It can seem like things are too far gone at this point. That nothing could heal the cracks and restore life to the soul.


But Jesus came to give life.


Slowly but surely, life with Jesus starts to bring change. The dust starts to clear. It might be hard to recognise at first but sure enough the changes come. Jesus' promises start to wash over a dry and cracked soul and bring relief. Can you see the ground becoming less harsh? Time in God's Word has started a change, a softening. The cracks are still there, but less defined. Things aren't slipping through them as easily anymore. Suddenly giving to people doesn't feel as draining, it still isn't easy, but it's definately easier.

But Jesus came to give life.

See now the cracks are gone. Things are barren and dry no longer. The soul has been saturated and lives again. With this life there is joy. And hope. And peace. And grace. This life is found in Jesus. He can take away the pain of a dry and barren spirit and give you life again.

Ezekiel 36:26

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."