The Lord will guide you always;
He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah begins this text by assuring believers that the Lord will guide us in the only way He knows and has demonstrated and that is in an always manner. Isn't that good news?
Even as the text suggests our needs will be satisfied in an area of life that's hard to maintain. A sun-scorched land is a land that admittedly would be hard to maintain. But so is a snow covered land also hard to maintain.
Nevertheless in the midst of these two extremes it is absolutely good to know that our God has promised to guide us and at the same time satisfy our needs both for today and tomorrow.
He promises that even in a hard to maintain sun-scorched land, believers will be an example of a well-watered garden; just like an ever-flowing stream that will never experience the reality of being dry.
Think about it, how easy would it be to be dry in a sun-scorched land?
What is the probability of the children of God experiencing dryness while being in a sun-scorched land if God is leading us?
If God is the living water and the well that shall never run dry, how can we possibly experience dry-ness? As long as we continue to drink daily we will always be hydrated and not just hydrated but saturated in the living water, so that when we find ourselves in sun scorched land we won't be affected but kept. And that is awesome news indeed!
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ReplyDeleteI am amazed at how God's promises extend to every area and aspect of my life even during times of dryness in a sun-scorched land! I'm reminded of John 4 and Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman who came in the heat of the day to draw water instead of the early morning or evening hour when it was cooler. She came at a time when no one else would be there because of her scandalous reputation. Jesus, while conversing with the woman at the well, promised her, "living water" which is identified as the Holy Spirit dwelling within a believer "never to be thirsty again." Never to be thirsty again assures me that even during a dry or sun-scorched time or in a dry or sun-scorched land, I am assured of a "spring of water welling up"....."always!" A believer experiencing dryness? Absolutely not!
I believe that even as believers we "sometimes" still experience dryness or dry lands; HOWEVER when God is leading us even in the sun scorched dry-land if we don't focus on the dryness or the heat of things and keep our attention on God then what may seem dry to others is nothing for us, because we KNOW that Christ is the LIVING WATER and when we drink from Him (His word) we really don't experience the REAL effects on being in that dry place. Im grateful that whenever I go through a what seems to be dry place as long as I keep connected to the living water (Christ) I know that #1 He is with me #2 IT SHALL PASS!!
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