Oswald is still the man

Read today's Oswald Chambers devotional. I think this was written for me to hear today but it might be for you too.

Enjoy:

Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual
exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether
or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies.
Jesus said to Peter - "Feed My sheep," but He gave him nothing to feed
them with. The process of being made broken bread and poured out wine
means that you have to be the nourishment for other souls until they learn
to feed on God. They must drain you to the dregs. Be careful that you get
your supply, or before long you will be utterly exhausted. Before other
souls learn to draw on the life of the Lord Jesus direct, they have to
draw on it through you; you have to be literally "sucked," until they
learn to take their nourishment from God. We owe it to God to be our best
for His lambs and His sheep as well as for Himself.

Has the way in which you have been serving God betrayed you into
exhaustion? If so, then rally your affections. Where did you start the
service from? From your own sympathy or from the basis of the Redemption
of Jesus Christ? Continually go back to the foundation of your affections
and recollect where the source of power is. You have no right to say - "O
Lord, I am so exhausted." He saved and sanctified you in order to exhaust
you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him.
"All my fresh springs shall be in Thee."

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Taken from 'My Utmost for His Highest', by Oswald Chambers. © l935 by Dodd
Mead & Co., renewed © 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn.,
Ltd., and is used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio.