Are you in such a scenario ??
Your spirit is parched and withered. In prayer you hear only the echoes of your own pleas. You wander aimlessly through the barren place, searching for that Friend and Companion promised in scripture, the One who promised to comfort you and give you living water in a dry, parched land. But there is only emptiness.
The Scripture uses the imagery of the desert for such times as these, and is honest enough to suggest that they will come to most of us and come when we least want to deal with them.
As we journey through life, we experience faith with its ups and downs and its twists and turns. It becomes a reminder that all is not darkness and that life has its mountaintop moments as well as the valleys of the shadow of death and the deserts of dryness. We know the power of the Word in our lives, especially when we feel dry and worn and weary. We will never weary of telling about the passages of Scripture that persuade us of the nearer presence of our Saviour in the moments we need Him most.
Let us ask God to
infuse His grace, and descend plentifully into our heart;
enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there His cheerful beams; dwell in that soul that longs to be His temple;
water that barren soil and make it fruitful with His dew from heaven.
Isaiah 41:17-20
When... their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them... I will make the desert a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water... so that all may see and know, all may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this.
John 7:37
Jesus said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink."
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