+DEV+ The Living Water

Date: September 15, 2011
Topic: +DEV+ The Living Water

The Living Water

"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 58:11)
Scripture Focus: Isaiah 55:1-11

Do you ever feel as though you are wandering through a barren desert? Does your thirsty soul long for something more in a "dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1)? Have you been looking to the waters of this world to satisfy, only to be left wanting? Jesus said that those who drink the waters of this world will thirst again, but those who drink the water He gives will be completely satisfied (John 4:13-14). He is the Spring whose waters never fail, and He beckons you this day to come and drink freely the water of life (Revelation 22:17).

Trees need water in order to survive and bear fruit. We, too, must soak in the Living Water if our lives are going to flourish and bear God-honoring fruit. As the earth opens wide to receive God's gift of rain, so must our hearts break open wide to drink of His fertile, life-giving Word (see Deuteronomy 32:2). Through it, He causes rains of grace to fall upon a sun-scorched soul, yielding new life with the green of spring.

Insight: Those Who Drink The Living Water Of God's Word Become "Oaks Of Righteousness, The Planting Of The Lord, That He May Be Glorified" (Isaiah 61:3B).