"Overdrawn"

  The only way to keep from being overdrawn at a bank is to make sure you deposit more than you take out!  You must put more in and make no demands on your account to be overdrawn. 

  The same can be said in the lives of people. This can be true in a marriage where a husband/wife make emotional demands without ever making deposits. They find themselves emotional spent with nothing more to give. In other words, they are overdrawn! Over and over a mate keeps telling the other, "Trust me!" yet over and over they abuse that trust. The one breaking trust has a difficult time understanding because they may be sincere but do not see their pattern of living has "overdrawn" the other. The broken trust time and time again has become an emotional withdrawal of the other until there is nothing left to withdraw any longer. The result is mistreatment on one side and hardness on the other. Trust is proven, not spoken! (Jam. 1:22-25) Both are headed in directions that will destroy eventually. The one comes with withdrawals, "forgive me", yet in the process makes no deposits in the heart of the other to assure them they are trustworthy! There are no reasons given to trust and make the other believe that the account is honorable. The result is the one thinks the other is being hard on them not letting them forget mistakes when in reality the one that is untrustworthy has yet to deposit trust within the heart of the other by their attitude and actions. This same kind of withdrawals happens not only in marriages but between friends, family members and employees! Most of the time, the guilty bend people until they break and then take an attitude or complain when the broken one does not act like everything is fine. The broken are simply overdrawn and have nothing left. 

  What are we to do? To the one who has given over and over finding themselves emotionally overdrawn, it's time you start putting a deposit into the heart of Jesus. One goes too long without depositing something back into the heart and you will be completely, emotionally ruined. There has to be time for intake. To the one who has taken and keeps taking, they need to show some humble service to the Lord and make a deposit in the heart of the one spent! The Lord forgives but we can't abuse His forgiveness and with forgiveness there must be fruit that results. That is a deposit that assures the bankrupt of a sincere life lived in honor and dedication! It shows a commitment to Jesus and the other that is overdrawn. There you find grace to help in time of need!