Drained

These past three camps have been insane! We did three camps in a two week time span and no longer know what day it is or what 8 hours of sleep is. It has been physically and spiritually draining on our staff as we have hosted camps with over 350 people each camp.

But all this not to discourage, but encourage. We sat together yesterday at lunch and Roger, our camp director and Global's founder, encouraged us. "You are all spiritually drained and tired... welcome to ministry." It hit me that ministering is not about me. It is about what we are pouring into others and what God is doing through us. Often I think I lose sight of the good that is being done in ministering to others. I think of me and my feelings rather than the work that God needs me to do.

1 Corinthians 15:58, "...be steadfast immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." That has been an encouragement to me because the work being done is not in vain. God has a plan in this because when I am drained He begins to fill.

Pray for strength!