Weary lays me low.
Do you know what I mean? Do you feel pushed down, beat up, down for the last count? Lately, I feel this lowness on a daily basis. The problem for me is lingering in the weariness and letting it take me to other places where fear, defeat, and anger live. I need a remedy that will quickly serve to raise me up.
I have found the answer, I believe. I’m not sure if it is the same for you. But, I’m guessing, because we are made by the same creator that it is true for you as well.
Worship raises me up.
My weariness bows to the one I was made to worship. As I listen and sing songs my heart love about my Savior I am lifted up, too. Worship, fills me in a way that nothing else does. Sometimes, the Lord slips special gifts of songs in my heart and invites me to sing them all day long.
This week it was a song by Christy Nockles. I think she is writing the songs of my mothering days. I absolutely connect with her words for Jesus in the deepest way.
“You Revive Me” by Christy Nockles, by Passion Worship Band | from the Passion White Flag” album
Chorus:
You revive me
You revive me Lord
And all my deserts are rivers of joy
You are the treasure I could not afford
So I’ll spend myself till I’m empty and poor
All for You
You revive me Lord
Verse 1:
Lord I have seen Your goodness
And I know the way You are
Give me eyes to see You in the dark
And Your face shines a glory
That i only know in part
And there is still a longing
A longing in my heart
Chorus:
Verse 2:
My soul is thirsty
Only You can satisfy
You are the well that never will run dry
And i’ll praise You for the blessing
For calling me Your friend
And in Your name I’m lifting
I’m lifting up my hands
Bridge:
I’m alive
I’m alive
You breathe on me
You revive me
How appropriate this song is from the “White Flag Album”? I have been waving mine for years now, daily. He is the well that never will run dry. Oh girl, that is truth my weary heart needs today. All day long. He really does want to lift us up. He wants to fill us with His presence and turn our dry and weary hearts into gushing rivers of joy.
Will you worship, weary mom, with me?
xo,
Stacey
P.S. I’m linking up with the Dear Weary Mom letters today and did you hear that the paperback copy of “Hope” is on sale for $4.99 until June 1 at Amazon? (affiliate link to purchase) Such a great deal for book clubs or gifts or to keep one in you car to read while waiting for the kids at swim practice.
“He is the well that never will run dry. Oh girl, that is truth my weary heart needs today.”
This? Yes. The living water that runs over my dried up spirit when I’ve given all I have and she looks at me and her eyes say, “It’s not enough.” Train me, O Lord, to run to Your well and drink freely, to be restored and renewed. And let me teach her that same lesson … because I really never will be enough, but HE, He is always more.
Love you, girl! {Praying you through recital week!!}
TL
Train me, too Lord to run to You!
Thanks for your prayers. I feel them!
xo,
Stacey
I love how the Lord always ministers to you in song. Maybe that’s why, the few times I’ve spent some extended time with you, you sing all the time! It bursts out of your heart, and it’s one of the things I love about you sweet weary mom.
That is so neat that you notice it. I don’t even realize I do it! I love when we get to be in the same room , period!
Yes! I don’t sing well or know much about music, but I know it lifts me up. I like to have music that speaks truth into my days all around me.
I do know what you mean, “Weary lays me low.” And I love this line, this truth, this way, “My weariness bows to the one I was made to worship.”
Worship ushers us into the presence of God and that is where there is fulness of joy. What a perfect way! Because the joy of the Lord is our strength. Amen!
Stacey,
I need this reminder to run to God through worship. It’s what lifts my spirit as well. And when I sing Him my love songs, my heart feels changed in an instant. He’s amazing like that. I love that in the middle of the craziest days, He can flood my heart with a song and the world stands still for a few minutes…it’s just me and Jesus holding hands. And on days when my heart is tired and God knows I got nothin’, someone (like you) reminds me to seek Him through song. I turn on my favorite Pandora station and “Blessed be the Name of the Lord” by Matt Redman is on. Oh, I love that song and I am lifted from a darker place.
Thanks you for this Stacey. I love your heart for worship. XO
You know Megan, He love sit when you sing to Him!
I love that song too!
Worship music often helps to clear my head. In our new town there are TWO contemporary Christian stations instead of just one, so I can flip back and forth depending on what songs I want to hear. It’s so refreshing!
I wish I could sing – on key – because worship definitely makes me feel SO much better!