The Elixir

UV 3721/10000. The Elixir You were wearied by the length of your road, yet you did not say, “ It is no use.” You found renewed strength, therefore you did not grow weak. Isaiah 57 v 10 When we are wearied by the things happening to us or around us, we should not confess negatively. Instead, we should do three types of spiritual exercise – prayer, praise and meditation of the word of God. Hence, Paul wrote, “ Physical exercise is of some value but spiritual exercises are of far greater value.” When we do these three spiritual exercises daily, regularly or continually, the words that come to our mind are those that renew our youth so that we will run and not grow tired, we will walk and not faint. The Lord promises to renew our youth right into our old age. Hence, prayer, praise and the word are like the only elixir that God has given to man. When we store His word in our hearts, it will overflow often into our minds and from there into our mouths to influence positively our lives and that of the hearers. The word is the source of the rivers of life giving water that the Spirit of God will cause to flow from our bellies or inner being. We need to decode or discover the weaknesses in our lives, the burdens, the flaws in our character and decide to hand it over to the Lord to turn it into His strengths to display His glory. In our weaknesses is His strength and glory revealed. There is no unknown road for the Lord. There is no path too difficult or rough for Him to traverse. He knows where every road ends. He knows the obstacles or hurdles or challenges coming up on each road we take. He has the entire roadmap of our lives. Hence, when we pray He either warns us of the hurdles, removes it or strengthens us to go through, around or over it. It is my testimony for a man who was severely wounded in a human bomb and drowned to death in the sea, that the Lord continually renews my youth. He strengthens my frame, the bones which itself carry scores of steel pellets from the bomb. Samson’s secret of strength lay in his seven locks of uncut hair but my secret of renewed strength and youth and vigour is the joy of the Lord. I daily meditate on His word and then delight in doing what His word and will wants me to do. He is the great Physician, the Specialist of Specialists, the only One who can heal both spirit, mind and body and of any ailment or weakness. He is our Creator, our Mechanic who knows every defect in us and how to rectify us. In any physical healing, we need a doctor, the medicine and the faith, willingness as well as discipline to take the medicine as recommended to us. Likewise, in the areas of our weakness or ailment or burden, we need the presence of the Lord, His word being our internal medicine, His Spirit the external balm and our discipline to apply the word to our lives.