A prayer for God's strength when you're running on empty.

By Emily Rose Massey, read by Leah Martin.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion

forever.

Psalm 73.26.

In my current season of life, raising little ones, I am running on empty.

My flesh feels so limited most days.

I often use the phrase swimming through mud when I'm trying to accomplish my tasks for

the day, and I'm met with resistance, distractions, and interruptions.

I find my frequent prayer to be, help me, Jesus.

In a culture, yes, even within the visible church, where positive affirmations and self-empowered

declarations are the norm, admitting your weakness, your limitateness, and your failures,

is seen as negative and perhaps even harmful to your soul.

You can purchase t-shirts and find graphics all over the internet that proclaim, you are

enough.

Yet the Bible reveals that we are not enough in and of ourselves or in our own abilities,

we're but dust, Psalm 103, 14 to 16.

The Lord is the one who gives us the breath and talents to accomplish anything.

So admitting our not-enough-ness provides an opportunity to look to God because He is

in fact more than enough and His grace is sufficient, 2 Corinthians 12.

Ultimately, the Lord is glorified in my weakness and in my feeling of emptiness and not-enough-ness.

The Psalmist ASAP boldly admits his frail humanity in Psalm 73.

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