Take Me To Elim

God promises to "...refresh the weary and satisfy the faint." (Jeremiah 31:25, NIV).

The Lord's invitation is for us today. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28).

Are you weary today?

Has life worn you down to a bare thread?

You may feel you don't have the strength to even think about tomorrow. A deep weariness can give way to resignation, even depression. The lack of rest and energy is defeating. You are not able to just pick up and go. You drag your feet and your head is sunk low. Your spirit is crushed and diminished.

But God is patient and gentle. He will not crush a bruised reed or snuff out a flickering candle (Isaiah 42:3 NLT). He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap (I Samuel 2:8a NIV).

These are the promises we need to cling to when our minds, hearts and bodies are in desperate need for rest.

The Israelites were traveling through a sun scorched wilderness. They came to a place called Marah where the waters were bitter but God healed them. Later, they traveled to a place called Elim "...where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water." (Exodus 15:27 NIV). There was a well for each tribe and plenty of shade from the heat of day!

God will make an Elim for us in our weariness. He will be our shade from life's intense times.

Ask Him to take you to Elim.

It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain. (Isaiah 46:6, NIV).