Daily Devotion With Pastor Dan – August 24th, 2020
I am sitting down to write this devotion for tomorrow so that you all will get it early and I realize that I am thirsty. What I really want is a big glass of ice water. It seems that with all the hot weather that we have been getting that is the go-to drink. But, have you ever found yourself spiritually thirsty? Have you ever felt like a dry barren desert?
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
The Hebrew word for a dried up river bed is “Nachal”. Israel has many of these. Here, in Israel it rains in winter, but not in summer. In the summer, these places stand as a testament of the rains that once fell and of the rains yet to come. Then, when they do come, the Nechalim (nachal plural) almost instantly fill with water. This is what the Scripture means when it says, “I will give you rivers in the desert.” There is a promise in that for us.
We, like the Nachal, were made to flow with the water and the life of the Spirit of God. When we are not connected to God, to His flowing waters, we feel dry and empty — without purpose. But we were meant to be overflowing! Filled up! And of course that comes through the work of the Holy Spirit in our life. Maybe you are feeling dry and empty in your life and walk? Praise the Lord! What an opportunity to allow God to fill you with His rivers of living water! Maybe you need salvation in Him, and that is where you need to start. Either way if you’re dry and thirsty, turn to the Lord today and the waters will flood in again!