ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIT FOR WATER

ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIT FOR WATER?

I am cognizant of the fact that this devotional presents a rather odd question.  However, it is expedient to highlight the fact that some are never refreshed in life due to an impatient and petulant spirit.  Nevertheless, good things do come to those who wait.  For example, Major V. Gilbert recounts this story of struggle with thirst while his allied army traversed a dry desert: 

Driving up from Beersheba, a combined force of British, Australians and New Zealanders were pressing on the rear of the Turkish retreat over arid desert. The attack outdistanced its water carrying camel train. Water bottles were empty. The sun blazed pitilessly out of a sky where the vultures wheeled expectantly.  “Our heads ached,” writes Gilbert, “and our eyes became bloodshot and dim in the blinding glare...our tongues began to swell...our lips turned a purplish black and burst.”  Those who dropped out of the column were never seen again, but the desperate force battled on to Sheria. There were wells at Sheria, and had they been unable to take the place by nightfall, thousands were doomed to die of thirst. 

“We fought that day,” writes Gilbert, “as men fight for their lives. We entered Sheria station on the heels of the retreating Turks. The first objects which met our view were the great stone cisterns full of cold, clear, drinking water. In the still night air the sound of water running into the tanks could be distinctly heard, maddening in its nearness; yet not a man murmured when orders were given for the battalions to fall in, two deep, facing the cisterns.” He then describes the stern priorities for water: first the wounded, then those on guard duty, then company by company. It took four agonizing hours before the last man had his drink of water, and in all that time they had been standing twenty feet from a low stone wall on the other side of which were thousands of gallons of water.

My friend never ever give up.  Your refreshing days of renewal and rejuvenation are coming.  Isaiah prophetically describes your current struggle and ultimate success far more eloquently than I:  

“Have you not known?  Have you not heard?  The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary.  His understanding is unsearchable.  He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:28-31, NKJV)

Wait On The Lord…

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!