It wasn’t that long ago when some things hit me steadily hard and I told My dear wife: I feel like a flat tire!
Have you ever felt like that? I mean something, or a couple things, or a lot of things just jabbed at you, poked at you, disappointed you, hurt you… and before you know it- whop… whop… whop… and you’re flat- flat down.
No wind, no life, no drive.
It’s really hard to roll when you’re feeling that low.
Paul and his companions were hit like this quite often: “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Cor 4: 8-9).
When we are hard pressed or struck down, it’s time to be filled and lifted up with the Spirit of God.
In the Old Testament the Hebrew word for the Spirit as referring to God’s Spirit is “ruach” meaning “breath,” “wind” or “breeze.”
So, what do you do when you have a real flat tire? You get it patched up and put some air back in it.
And what do you do when you feel like a flat tire? You get patched up and get God’s air back in you.
And soon, after He repairs the area that got hit, and He fills us back up with the air of His Spirit, then we’ll be back on the highway again full steam ahead!
“Those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40: 31)