{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"When Your Soul Feels Dry | Hosea 9:13-16","description":"Welcome to The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 9:13-16: Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. Give them, O Lord\u2014 what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels. Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death. \u2014 Hosea 9:13-16 It can be hard to explain when your soul feels dry. Nothing is obviously wrong. Life is still moving. You\u2019re showing up, getting things done, and staying responsible. But inside, something feels off. Not emotional or dramatic\u2014just flat. Prayer feels forced, Scripture feels distant, worship feels like words, and God feels far away. Hosea puts language to that experience: \u201ctheir root is dried up.\u201d The issue is not what people see on the surface. It is what is happening underneath. The root\u2014the place where life and nourishment come from\u2014is dry. And when the root is dry, everything else eventually follows. You can keep going like that for a while. You can stay productive, disciplined, and even religious. But you cannot stay spiritually alive. Because dryness is not about how much you are doing. It is about connection. Some people experience this and assume they are burned out. Others try to fix it by doing more. But dryness does not respond to more effort. It responds to radical reverse, an about-face, a return. Dryness is not just a sensation\u2014it is an alert. An alarm is sounding in your life. It's warning you that something has drifted. Something has been neglected. Something has taken the place of what used to be central. And you know you can feel it. That's good news because it means your heart is not calloused and numb. It means God is still drawing your attention to what matters most. So do not ignore it or cover it up. Do not push through it or pretend it is normal. Bring it to God honestly and simply. Because the God who exposes dry roots is the same God who restores them. And this season of dryness does not have to be the end of your story. It can be the place where life buds again. DO THIS: Take five quiet minutes today and talk honestly with God about where your soul feels dry. ASK THIS: Where do I feel spiritually dry right now? When did that begin? What have I been turning to instead of God? PRAY THIS: God, my soul feels dry. I don\u2019t want to ignore it or pretend. Meet me here, restore what\u2019s been lost, and bring life back to what only you can sustain. Amen. PLAY THIS: "New Thing Coming" ","author_name":"The Daily + Weekly by Vince Miller","author_url":"https:\/\/beresolute.org\/vincemillerspeaker","html":"