+DEV+ Promise of Refreshing

Date: March 6, 2011 8:26 PM
Topic: +DEV+ Promise of Refreshing

Promise of Refreshing

"For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring" (Isaiah 44:3, KJV).
Scripture Focus: Isaiah 35:1-10

Isaiah 35:7 has been translated "the mirage shall become a real pool of water and the thirsty ground an oasis." People dying of thirst in the desert often see mirages, imagined and quickly-vanishing refuges where their thirst would be quenched. Hear the Lord's promise of true refreshing: everything of this world that is sin-tainted, dry and temporary will be invigorated, renewed and eternal.

It brings to mind a picture from a television series called "Nature's Greatest Events." It showed the Okavango river delta in S. Africa which flows into the parched Kalahari Desert. Typically, the river bed dries out, and the burning sands of the desert teem with animals seeking pasture and water, though most of the year there is none to be found. Then after the heavy mountain rains comes a trickle of water spreading over the land. It becomes a flood, and the desert bursts into bloom. Pools abound with fish, bushes are alive with butterflies and trees with birds, and the countless game can slake their thirst.

Insight: We're the desert into which the Holy Spirit pours His living waters so that our parched souls and those of others through us are refreshed.