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PROGRAM D-7695

What is it that uses up your energy and leaves you living in “overdrawn” mode too much of the time?

We are looking at how we often waste our energy unnecessarily. For example,

  • Our strength is used up when we have money problems.

When your finances are a constant problem, it unquestionably drains your strength. Credit cards can be your downfall. Maybe you need to get on a budget and stop this drain on your life.

  • Our strength is used up when we fill our minds with junk.

What are you allowing into your mind? If it’s lots of junk, maybe not evil but just junk, then you need to put a screen on your mind. That includes television, music, reading material, conversations—any input into your mind. The more you clean it up and get rid of the junk, the more emotional and spiritual energy you’ll have for things that are important.

  • Our strength is used up when our lives are not disciplined.

Proverbs says that we die from lack of discipline, and I believe that many of us are drained of energy because we refuse needed discipline in our lives. When you get the discipline going the way the Lord wants you to, it’s amazing how energized you start to feel. The good feelings that come from accomplishment energize us for more accomplishments.

What I’d like to suggest is that you take a few minutes to list where your energy comes from and where it goes. Make a balance sheet, if you will, showing the assets and liabilities. Then take a look and see where you are out of balance. Just list on one side what you do to pour inner strength into your life, and on the other, what are the things that drain your energy. You may well discover that you’re out of balance.

And that could be because you don’t put enough in or you take too much out. It could be you put the wrong things in and spend your energy in the wrong ways.

It may mean you have to disappoint some people, or make some changes in your life-style in order to use your energy more wisely. We are called to be servants, but we can’t serve very effectively if we’re out of balance.