Refreshed And Recharged! (I Am Recharged, I Am Prepared For Eternity)

Intro:

For the last 2 Sundays we heard a lot of exhortations and teachings about how to know and overcome the stresses of life that cause every one of us to be drained that leads us to be recharged. Why do you think that our mother church decided to have this theme be on this month of July? It’s because many (including all of us) needed to be recharged and be restored to their faith.

This pandemic caused us a lot of problems that threatens not only on our physical health but also our spiritual health. Ever since we have started face to face gathering and we have opened our doors to almost everyone with 2 Sunday services, still many of our people opted to stay at home. They feel relaxed and somehow, they even hide their timidity with the fear of going out even going to church for a couple of hours only. However, we can see them going out for work, or going to malls yet they seem to forget to go to church and be reminded that they have their own faith to feed.

This is what we call spiritual dryness, where we opted to be satisfied of what we are now facing which many called “new normal”. This new normal syndrome includes forgetting or neglecting our responsibility to our soul to be nourished by God every Sunday if not every day. Dryness is being free of moisture or any liquid substance. Dryness is the loss of all wetness or moisture over a period of time. A person may stay for a period of time or for years without spiritual rain, wetness or moisture.

This new normal syndrome is very dangerous for us Christians, especially if we are not aware of our spiritual conditions in life. When we feel satisfied of not having fellowship with our brothers and sisters, when we neglect praying and reading His word and even doing other activities for our soul, this will lead to spiritual dryness. So today, allow me to share His Word in order for us to overcome this new normal syndrome and once more we will be…

Refreshed and Recharged!

Psalm 63:1-6

1You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

2I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.

3Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.

4I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

5I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

6On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.

Initial Observation:

1. Here we can see that King David wanted to be refreshed again (v1). During this time of the life of David, he was apprehended and persecuted by King Saul, who was eaten by his pride and jealousy towards David. He seeks to kill David not just physically by also spiritually by depriving him going to the sanctuary of God to worship Him. David found himself in dry place with no water and he sought God more and more for refreshment. David sought to be closer to God; to have real communion with Him. Only hungry and thirsty men look for food and water.

2. He remembered His experience with God (v2&3). David saw how God helped him in many ways, through his victories in battles because of the power of God that gave God the glory through David. He remembered the love of God towards Him that made David glorify God through songs of praise.

3. He recommitted his life to God in v4 by stating “I will praise you as long as I live, and in Your name I will lift up my hands.”

4. He re-established his faith to God in v5 by stating that God will only satisfy him just like the rich, delicious food that he ever tasted.

5. He recalled his relationship with God every night in v6. David was so in-love with God even in the midst of sufferings, being alone and haunted, yet David wanted to be refreshed again with God.

Isn’t that amazing when we remember the first time, we met God in our lives in the midst of the problems and worries of life? Can we be like David today? Or are we being eaten by the new normal syndrome of this pandemic? For us Christians, it is not only the latest COVID-19 variants that we need to fear but also this new normal syndrome that hits most of us. And just like COVID-19, we are not aware we have it already.