Isaiah 41:17 “The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water,
and the dry land into flowing springs.”
I first accepted Jesus as my Savior at the age of 15. Unfortunately, I lost my faith while in college and was more or less away from the Lord – although not away from church – for ten years. I regained my faith and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit simultaneously on April 15, 1978. Shortly after that re-dedication, I began having nightmares in which I was in a fiery barren landscape surrounded by rocks. I was being hunted by an evil being and had no place to hide. I quickly learned to call on Jesus in my dreams, and when I did so, suddenly the landscape changed. The fire disappeared, as did the evil Being who was hunting me. And I was left with a quiet starlit night with a refreshing wind blowing and no trace of the sulfurous gases that had previously choked me. Had someone else narrated such a dream to me, I might not have believed it, but the experience was completely real.
Perhaps today you feel as I did in my nightmares. You feel trapped with nowhere to go. Evil is pursuing you and you see no way out of your situation. Call on Jesus! He is our Savior. He is Immanuel, “God with us.” “But I don’t know Jesus,” you say. “I have spent my whole life trying to be the Captain of my soul, master of my own fate.” O.K., fine. And how is that working for you? Life has a way of inevitably bringing us to the end of ourselves. We can try to be our own gods, but we will always fail eventually. “But I have always scorned Jesus,” someone else might say. But here’s the thing about Jesus: you might scorn Him, but He died for your sins.
Tired of that desert with the scorching dry winds? Tired of trying to be your own providence? Come to Jesus, who never turns away, no matter how ugly and wretched we are and who never throws our sins back into our faces. He’s waiting for you. So, which will it be, scorched rocks and sulfurous air, or clean flowing streams and delight? Your choice.
PRAYER Jesus, I have spent a large part of my life trying to ignore you and running away from you. Today, I am tired of running. Please heal my situation. Please send your streams of living water into my situation and into my soul. I give you my heart, Lord. Amen.
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