Where to Get Healthy Red Bull

Isaiah 40:31 says: “Those that hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will...run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

How is that one supposed to work? I wondered the other night.

I’d just discovered others were spreading lies about me behind my back to bring me down.

At the same time, I was still sore from intense physical labor over the past few days. Then, last minute, late at night, I discovered I had to get ready for one of the biggest days of my year the next day.

I didn’t feel like running or even walking. I felt like falling over.

I try not to drink Red Bulls because I know how terrible they are for you. But that night, I felt like breaking my promise.

As I kept seeking the Lord about it, the Lord spoke something to me.

Without fully realizing it, in the back of my mind, all day I’d kept thinking about the false rumors being spread about me. The injustice! The horror! The shock! Can you believe how rotten people are in the world?! Ahh!!

Pretty soon, I felt spiritually tapped out.

Someone told me once: “no matter how big your problems are, God is still bigger.”

But in my heart, I had zoomed in on the false rumors, like how you zoom in on a picture on your phone, until the false rumors had gotten HUGE. I magnified them until they were way bigger than God.

As I kept seeking God that night on how that verse in Isaiah made sense, God spoke to my heart.

“Shrink your problems back to size.”

I forced myself to zoom out of the issue, shrinking the issue. Instead, I zoomed in on the Lord, magnifying the Lord. I started praising the Lord instead that night, delighting my heart in Him.

By the end of the next day, which did turn out to be one of the biggest days of the year, I should have been even MORE exhausted.

But I was shocked by how much energy I had! As I rushed to do the final push late that day, I literally was so energized, I was dancing.

That wasn’t my natural strength. I’d tapped into spiritual Red Bull, which is way healthier for you. God gave me supernatural energy, as He promised He would.

We have way more authority over our thought life than we realize.

Proverbs 4:23 says: “watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life”.

Sometimes physical tiredness is a symptom of being spiritually drained.

It’s easy to point to circumstances–-”well, I pulled a longer shift at work”. Or: “Oh, I’m feeling rundown from being on my feet all day”, or, etc.

But often it’s more than that. I remember getting into some ridiculous arguments. For instance, I was about ready to go to war over a friend stepping on my empty fountain drink cup.

Finally, I stopped myself. “Okay, WHAT is going on here? I’m a grown adult. This is incredibly stupid.”

I had allowed myself to get rundown and weary without recharging my spirit.

As I came back into the presence of the Lord by praising the Lord, irritability left. And again, as promised, God renewed my strength.