My Eyes Are Dry

My eyes are dry
My faith is old
My heart is hard
My prayers are cold
And I know how I ought to be
Alive to You and dead to me

But what can be done
For an old heart like mine
Soften it up
With oil and wine
The oil is You, Your Spirit of love
Please wash me anew
With the wine of Your Blood

My Eyes Are Dry - Keith Green

Ever get to this point? Honestly? I think if we were all honest with ourselves, we can say “Yes, I have been there.” Many times you don’t feel yourself getting there. It almost appears that you wake up one morning and you’re there. After I’m there, I can always look back and realize that, yes I have been neglecting my prayer time. I have not been in the Word like I should be. But what can I do?

First we need to confess our faults and pour ourselves out to God. Cry out to Him and plead for forgiveness. We could take some tips from King David.

Psalm 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

I understand that this was David’s prayer after Nathan confronted him regarding the Bath-sheba incident. That was a very serious matter. Spiritual death or Spiritual coldness is a serious matter also. First we need to get honest with ourselves. Are we where we need to be? Maybe not where we need to be, but are we where we once were? Has your Spiritual life been suffering? Second, we need to get honest with God. Only by His strength can it be made right. Only by His strength can we get where we need to be. To do our part we need only to be honest and to have “a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart.”

God Bless!
“…holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” Heb. 12:14