I still go to church and still read my Bible, but none of it lands anymore. Everything feels dry. How long does this last?

“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;”

This psalm carries a note saying David wrote it in the wilderness of Judah, most likely while fleeing for his life. He describes physical thirst and spiritual thirst in the same breath, because in that landscape they were the same experience. Notice that he is still speaking to God about wanting God. Dryness in scripture is not the end of faith; it is often where the language of longing gets learned.

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

Paul is writing to churches in Galatia that started well and then lost momentum under pressure from teachers who complicated the gospel. The image behind his words is farming: a long gap between sowing and harvest during which nothing visible happens. He assumes weariness is normal for people doing real spiritual work, and his counsel concerns the timing of the yield rather than the quality of your feelings.