Life is not static or unfluctuating. It is up and down and up. It is fill and deplete and fill again. It's renew, expend, renew, and expend and renew. And everyone of us wants the power of renewal.
Nobody here wants to be left in the valley of depletion and emptiness and discouragement.
If there is a secret to being made strong and hopeful and joyful and loving again and again and again day by day, we're interested. Which means that there are two words in this text that should get our attention. Picture verse 16 at the top of a triangle with two sides supporting it. So the first line of the triangle is the truth of verses 7-15 that leads up to this experience and supports it. That should get our attention and send us hunting in those verses for what it is.