Seasons get long. Our bodies get tired. Our minds get worn down.

It’s inevitable. Eventually, we will hit a lull in our workouts, a plateau we can’t seem to get past.

The grind of game time gets us weary when we’re smack dab in the middle of a season with still a ways to go.

Add on top of that, our home lives, homework and the expectations of others can all seem to mount at the same time. It can feel like too much, making us want to burrow under the blankets and take our time getting out of bed.

We need replenishment. True replenishment.

Not just a quick fix like a Netflix binge, but something deeper, lasting. We are in desperate need of slowing down and replenishing our weary souls with the deep and quenching waters of Jesus Christ.

And Jesus knows this. He’s known it from the beginning, as He knows it now. He offers grace to us in abundance, where we drink living water that does not stop flowing.

“On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.’”  –John 7:37-38

In this story, Jesus had arrived during the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, where crowds have swelled to their peak and the people packed into Jerusalem to remember God’s provision in the wilderness and to look ahead to the coming of the promised Messiah. He began teaching in the temple and engaging with the Pharisees and religious leaders. This was a heated moment, as more and more people were gathering to hear what Jesus had to say. Looking around, Jesus saw how weary they were, tired from the pilgrimage journey and laboring under the law. He knew what the people needed. And He offered it to them eagerly, urgently. He offered them Himself through the metaphor of streams of living water.

Read the rest of the article to learn how to truly be refueled.

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