Emotional Exhaustion

And what do I tell the person who is too

tired to go on? What do I tell the one

who says I'm too tired? God said, tell him I

got tired too. Okay, Jesus sat down in Samaria. That's

where to talk to a woman. That's who ask him

for water, That's what. But why?

Because he was tired?

Because he was fully god fully man. As much as

we love to shout about his divinity, you know how

we were a minute ago when I was setting you

up about the great I am, just to bring you

back down.

So you could know.

That the same God who created you, who was strong enough,

who was powerful enough. Everybody thinks Jesus was weak. Raise

your hand. Maybe maybe being weary doesn't mean you're weak.

Goodness, Jesus tired?

Why was he tired? I didn't say who was he

tired of? We already know it was Peter. Come on, Peter,

Peter's fighting you at every turn, cussing and stuff, in

front of the press, having to bleed Peter out. You know,

I know he was tired of the Pharisees. He couldn't

wash his hands, or not wash his hands. They followed

him to every bathroom, every dinner. I know he was

tired of them, but it says he was tired from

the journey.

Thinking about Jesus journey. You know, they walked everywhere.

No uber, no uber, Jesus, uber Christ Uber Savior. Three

day walk from where they were baptizing through some area.

Straight through was the short cut.

By the way, the direct route is sometimes the divine route.

Instead of hiding the fact that you're tired, you just say, God,

I'm tired. Somebody was yawning during my sermon one time,

and I just got mad about it.

I said, how are you tired? You're not doing anything,

you know.

But I found out later they worked a night shift

and came straight to church. It's kind of hard to

understand someone if you only see them at one part

of their journey.

And some people that we think are weak maybe are weary.

Have you thought about that that just because you're weary,

it doesn't make you weak. How do you know that Jesus,

I am the light of the world. I am the

bread of life. I am the Resurrection, I am the Door,

I am the Shepherd, I am the True Vine.

I am the Way.

At some point six hours after they left that morning,

at noon, he said something we wouldn't expect to hear.

The saviors say, I am tired.

This is the incarnation.

I worship with God, who is powerful enough to give

me strength and who is human enough to get tired.

And for some reason this week.

I felt that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus.

I thought maybe you could relate to.

Him, because his journey didn't really start with just leaving

that morning. I mean, that's enough six hours that day,

six hours in one day. I mean, I got a

six hour drive coming up with my kids, and I'm

downloading every episode of the Office on all of their phones,

just hoping we can make it six hours, still be saved,

still be married, still be healed, delivered, blessed in one

bappy family.

And that's a drive.

Six hours because you leave at six is noon's hot,

it's the heat of the day.

Of course he's tired. And yet I wondered, was it

only physical.

Or did he go through Samaria because he was tired

of the way they were treating each other?

Why was he tired? Why did he come to abolish

the barriers full of grace and truth?

And we beheld his glory, his journey didn't start in Bethlehem.

And the beginning was the Word, and the word was

with God, and the Word was God, and the word

became flesh.

That's a long trip.

From the sapphire seal of Heaven to the dusty streets

of Samaria.

Of course he was tired.

Even youth will grow weary and stumble. But those who

wait on the Lord. I'm waiting on God right now,

I'm waiting. Somebody say I'm waiting. I'm waiting.

I'm waiting, and I'm weary, and I'm not going to

lie to you.

I'm weary. I mean, this is getting old, and so me.

I'll want a cuss right now. Don't do it in

the chat, they'll block you. But even in your mind,

you're like, I'm sick of this. I am sick of this.

I mean, that's not an I am statement we read

in the Bible, but that's what you're saying.

Right now in your heart. I am what I am

sick of this? I am. I am sick and tired.

I am tired of fighting battles.

The thing about me, some people say.

When they get tired, they start laughing.

Not me.

When I get tired, I get mean, how many of

you when you get tired. That's why when you had

to pull me out of the elevator in Australia, and

I was about to fight that guy after I preached.

I mean, I had just finished given the invitation too.

If you're here today, the Lord says, come and that

dude said something sideways to me.

And my uncle taught me to hit him with your

elbow if you can get close enough.

And I was talking the elbow and Chunks pulled me back.

He said, you've been I was jet lagged.

I had preached twenty three times in four days. They

were preaching me to death church. I'm preaching. I'm preaching, preaching,

preaching tired.

And Chunks told me. I said, come on, you're too.

Tired now, because when you get too tired, you start.

Fighting battles that don't matter to.

Distract you from the ones that do.

That's just me. I start fighting everybody.

I start fighting people that are trying to help me

when I'm tired.

So Jesus said, y'all go get lunch. I'm sitting here

for a minute.

Because the ones y'all have been fighting against are the

ones I came to say. He had to go through Samaria.

He had to sit down.

There was a woman coming who needed him.

She didn't even know it, she had no idea who

he was. He sat down because he was tired. I mean,

you don't have to do anything right now, just sit

down and receive this word.

That the Son of God got tired. Son of God

got tired. I know you're superman.

And you're mad at yourself because you can't always get

it perfect perfection.

Got tired.

Faith doesn't prevent fatigue. It just gives me a place

to sit. He sat by a well. Here's the important thing.

What well do you sit by when you're tired?

He said?

It was Jacob's wealth. You with me, son, He said,

it was Jacob's well. Joseph was given that well by Jacob.

A lot of what our kids learn comes from us.

It's generational. Jesus sat down by that well. I think

that's so appropriate to say at this moment in our nation.

Wells are you digging for your kids to sit next to?

A lot of what we're going through.

Today is because of wells that were dug before we

got here.

And Jesus sat by Jacob's well. Wait on the Lord,

Now we see the lord waiting on a woman. So

I pictured this moment. I picture me and you.

You got your coffee, and you're like, I'm drinking all

the caffeine I can.

I'm still tired.

And I know you can watch your ted talk about

you know when to go to bed and when to

wake up and all that.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about tired. Inside.

I'm a sole doctor. I don't know anything about r EM.

I don't know anything about Ergo dynamic pillows.

Did I say that right? I don't know anything about

your mattress number. That is not my specialty. But I

know this. Sometimes you've got this. Sit down by a

real well and listen to me.

A lot of the places that we're sitting while we're

tired are.

Only making us more dehydrated.

A lot of the places that we're drinking from are

making us dumber, more fragmented, less whole, less informed. And

this woman comes up in the picture. She comes up

at noon because she's sneaking away from all of the

people who talked about her.

She is a woman with a past.

The last thing she wants to see is a man,

specifically a Jewish man, specifically.

A rabbi, and Jesus says, hey, can I get a drink?

This is not a pickup line. This is not a

pickup line. This is not a surface level question. This

is Jesus asking this woman, do you even know what's

in you? I'm a stand up now. I'm a stand

up now because I hear God saying to someone today,

you don't even know what I.

Put inside of you.

What I have put inside of you is so great now.

If you only see things on the surface, if.

You judge how people judge, you will never see what's inside.

This was Jacob's will, but it was really just something

for Jesus to sit on. When he sat on the

well and asked the woman, can I get a drink?

He was not talking about H two O. Don't you

get it. It's never about what we think it's about.

It's always something deeper. So Jesus has showed up in

this woman's situation, and I can't help but think it's

for somebody today.

You have been at your wits end, and you.

Thought I was gonna give you a little pep talk,

and you thought I was gonna tell you, you know,

get on with it and trust God and move forward

and all these little clay cliches of faith.

But I came to tell you, sit with him a

little while.

Sit with him a little while, Sit with him a

little while, Sit with him and see who you really are.

Sit with him a little while.

I've been sitting I'm just gonna confess to you.

I've been sitting by the wrong wells. A lot of

the time.

I've been depending on people to inform me about who

I am. I've been depending on what I see with

my eyes to tell me how it is. But there

is a well that does not come from an external source, and.

You can't see the pipes.

There is within you a spirit that is greater than

whatever is going on around you. Greater is he that

is in me.

I'm trying to shout. Sitting down so you can know.

He sat on the well so she could see what

was within her. And I believe God is revealing some

things to us in this season. I believe God is

revealing to his church in this season that he has

made us for a time when the world is so divised,

when he has made us for a time that the

world is so apathetic. And he sat by the well.

He sat by the well to talk to a women

who had had five husbands and was living with number six,

so she could know he was number seven. On the

first day, God worked. On the second day, God worked.

On the third day, God worked. On the fourth day,

God worked. On the fifth day, God worked. On the

sixth day, God worked. What do you do on the

seventh He sat down not because he needed rest, but

because she did. And that's what I love about a

God who will not let me fight for me and

walk with me and talk with me. But God said

to tell you this week. He is the God who

will come through forty one generations and go through Samaria just.

To sit with you, Just to sit with you. Sit

with him for a minute.

He might show you something that is within you that

nobody else noticed. This woman had been passed around like

the jar that she carried to the well that day.

She knew what it was to feel use.

Did he sit down at the well that day because

he was tired or because she was? You're tired of

being used by people? You type he manipulated by people.

Sit with me.

Because I see it where you're seated when I sit

with him. He has seated me with him in heavenly

places far above every ruler and principality.

You say, I'm tired, guys, that me too. I'm tired

to see it how people treat one another too. I'm

tired of the injustice too. Man. That's why I.

Came in the form of a man, so that I

could be what man could never be. I came to

hang on across and say it is finished, so that

you can rest. I know we've got work to do.

Can we sit for a minute. Can we just sit

with him for a minute? By the will that will

never run dry? Some of us passed e a long

time ago. The tank has been empty a long time.

So God says, I want you to sit with me.

When you sit with me, you will see with me.

When you sit with me, Who is this for? Just

raise your hand right now in the room, raise your

hand in the chat, say this.

Is for me.

I want to sit with him. I want to sit

by the well that has living water. I want to

sit away from the streams that are poisoned by the

prejudice of men.

I want to sit with him for a minute. And

Jesus tired, as he was said to his disciples, y'all

go get some food. I've got to get a harvest now.

I believe God sent.

Me to preach this message to somebody today who is

tired on the inside, and no amount of sleep, no

amount of netflix and numbing it, and no amount of

pacing the floors is going to solve it. And I

believe God brought you into his presence today for a reason.

And I think He woke me up three in the

morning this night, the night before, the night before, so

that I could feel a little bit physically while I

preach this how you've been feeling before we got here.

How Jesus felt, was how the woman felt.

Even youth will grow tired and weary, and young men

will stumble and fall, but they that wait on the.

Lord will renew their strength.

And God said, even if you don't have the patience

to wait for me, I'm waiting for you. When you

are tired, you must be very careful that you do

not become dehydrated.

You have got to drink this water. You have got

to drink this word. You have got to drink this worship.

You have got to move away from wells that will

never quench your thirst.

And you have got to receive the water that flows

from within.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was

with God. And the reason that you came to church

today is God wanted to give you water. He knows

your tire, he knows your thirsty. He hung on a

cross and said, I thirst too. He stretched his arms

this wide because.

He was tired of it too.

And the man who was God became man. And he

who knew no sin became sin, that we might become

the righteousness of God.

And he said to the.

Woman, and he said to me, and he said to you,

come on to me, oh, you who are weary and

heavy laden.

And I will give you rest. I am the bread

of life. I am the Resurrection. I am the Like,

I am.

The Shepherd, the Gate, I am.

The Way, I am the Vibe.

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