Sometimes weariness hangs around for way too long, and when it does, I find that the Book of Proverbs, a good cup of coffee, and a slowed-down morning watching the sun awaken the day is just good medicine.

Here is some wisdom from Proverbs 14.6-8:
“The intellectually arrogant seek for wisdom, but they never seem to discover what they claim they’re looking for. For revelation-knowledge flows in the one who hungers for understanding. The words of the wise are like weapons of knowledge. If you need wise counsel, stay away from the fool. For the wisdom of the wise will keep life on the right track, for the fool only deceives himself and refuses to face reality.”

Perhaps this is part of what Jesus alluded to when He called out to the crowd, “Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden.” Weariness can drive us to wisdom, to His way of thinking and doing. It may be a warning that I am back in the garden, eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil rather than the tree of life.

It may also be a sign that I am hanging about with those who do not really hunger for understanding. It may be a challenge to seek Jesus and His wisdom and find out where I am leaning on the impotent “wisdom” found in the lifeless market of discounted passion for Father’s ways and the tasteless water of the broken cisterns that Jeremiah spoke of.
Yep, that is what fuels the weariness: doing things with my limited understanding and perspective or trying to live off the dried bones of life once lived. Wisdom is simultaneously the easiest and hardest thing to obtain, but it is available if, as Proverbs says, you buy the truth and don’t sell it.

James shares an invitation that still stands for those who push past the easy way of living that is so boring and set their hearts on a pilgrimage of wisdom in God. A life of secret joy found only among those who know that those who continually seek will find.
“And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom, and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures, but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace. Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive.” James 1.5 & 6

- George,
(often weary but still wanting to live the exploits of those who know their God)