“You are My Supply” (Antioch Community Church version, not Chris Tomlin version)
The seasons have dried my soul
The Sun is hard beating down
And my temptation
Is to look at all that’s gone
But you are here,
You are here

You are my supply
Your my fountain of blessing
to the ends of the earth
You are my supply
And you wipe away my tears
And you take away my fears
With the strength of your love
The strength of your love

And after all is said
After all’s been done
I sit here empty
But my heart is yours
And you are here.
You are near.

And you are my supply
You’re my fountain of blessing
To the ends of the earth
You are my supply
And you wipe away my tears
And you take away my fears
With the strength of your love.
The strength of your love
Your perfect love drives out all my fear
Your perfect love drives out all my fear

Dear God, this song has meant a lot to me in the past. I love the opening words to the first verse: “The seasons have dried my soul.” Talk about poetry using six words to say what would otherwise take me 300 to explain. I’ve had some remarkably dry seasons. This, thankfully, isn’t one of them, but when I look back on the times when the seasons dried my soul the most I can take some lessons from those times. So the dry seasons weren’t wasted.

While I guess I can go back and give specific lessons from each drought, I think the overarching lesson is the chorus–you are my supply. And you have room for my soul to be dry. You understand I’m not always going to be at the top of my game. I could even consider some of those trials as training for later in life. One of the things top athletes will tell you is that practice should be so hard that the games or competitions are easy by comparison. Well, my lessons learned in the past have certainly prepared me for challenges that came later in my life.

Father, I just want to sing this chorus with confidence and conviction this morning: You are my supply. You’re my fountain of blessing to the ends of the earth. You are my supply. And you wipe away my tears–you take away my fears–with the strength of your love. Your perfect love drives out all my fear.

In Jesus’ name I pray,

Amen