20 Ways We Can Refresh Our Souls When We Are Weary

What Causes Christians to Become Weary?

Christians are not promised a pain-free life. Weariness is soul pain and it comes because of a number of things, including but not limited to:

Impatience

Social media

Unsaved loved ones 

Gossips

Long-term illness 

Grieffaith

Betrayal

5 Scriptures about Weariness, and Their Solution

God’s Word is replete with passages which address the weariness of our souls, and what we can do when we find ourselves in that state.

1. 

Psalm 6:6 - “I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.”

The Solution

Psalm 6:9 - “The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer.”

Proverbs 3:11 - “My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline or be weary of His reproof.”

The Solution

Proverbs 3:12 - “For the LORD reproves him whom He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”

Isaiah 38:14 - “Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!”

The Solution

Isaiah 38:20 - “The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.”

Jeremiah 30:12-13 - “For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.”

The Solution

Jeremiah 31:25 - “For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

Matthew 11:28a-29, “All who labor and are heavy laden…” 

The Ultimate Solution

Matthew 11:328b-30 - Jesus said, “Come to Me…and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”

20 Things to Do When You Are Weary

What do you do for weariness therapy? By that I mean, what do you do that helps you think and pray through issues that weary you? Following are twenty ideas (with a bonus) you may find helpful when you are weary. Each will help you focus on others and more importantly, on our God who never leaves us or forsakes us“ (Deuteronomy 31:6; Hebrews 13:5).

Pray

Share the Gospel with a lost friend or family member

Rest

Bible study

Take a walk in God’s natural setting

Pop your earbuds in and listen to some relaxing or worship music

Do some planting

Read The Valley of Vision

Visit with a close friend

Take a restorative weekend trip

Count your blessings

Star gaze

Practice your culinary skills

Make some greeting cards and send them to people in need

Work on a puzzle with a picture of God’s creation

Attend an online biblical conference

Visit a housebound church member and seek to encourage them

Grab a group of friends for an afternoon or evening of games

Read to the blindVisit your local library

21. Get off social media. Take a short break or a long one. Or cut it completely out. You know the wise choice.

A Prayer for When We’re Weary

(This is a prayer modeled after David’s cry to the Lord God in Psalm 69.)

Save me, O God!

For my weariness has encompassed me as waters cover a drowning man.

Lord, You know my failings. You know my sins and You know the sins others have committed against me.

Father, don’t let my weakness cause another to fall or bring shame to Your great name.

Let my life be one of praise and prayer to You, that I may magnify Your wonderful name.

I am weepy and humbled.

Yet I lift my prayers to You and I know in the abundance of Your steadfast love and faithfulness, you will save me from my weariness.

“Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good;
according to Your abundant mercy, turn to me.”

I haven’t found pity or comfort from man.

Instead, I come to You, my God, for comfort and rest from my weariness.

I will praise You for Your goodness and mercy, and when others see it, they will praise You.

In the matchless name of Jesus, I pray. Amen

sanctification

All that being said, God prepares us for this sometimes wearisome life we live here on earth. In essence, it’s preparation for the best that’s to come (eternal life with Christ in heaven!) As we live this life the Lord has given us, God knows exactly what we need, even when we are weary from life’s burdens. Rest in Him — in His peace — for Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid” (John 14:27). What a wonderful thing it is to be a Christian!

Amen.