Dry and Weary

I think there is a song that goes something like this, In a dry and weary land, You are the water, You are the water...


I may have it all wrong. If I do, I'll just write the song... Because I've been in the desert for too long. You know the feeling of choking you have when you are SO thirsty - when your nose AND throat are dry and your tongue feels ten sizes bigger than normal...? That's the way my life has felt lately. In fact, to be brutally honest, just the other day I was so dry I could only sit before the Lord with my head in my hands. I couldn't pray. I couldn't cry. I couldn't sing. I could only sit.


I started out like the Psalmist in Psalm 77:4 - You hold my eyelids open: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Truly, it was all I could do just to sit in His presence, but I knew I must. It was clear to me this was a turning point. As I sat there, His love rushed over me. It was like the dam upstream began with a series of cracks before bursting open. The healing waters of the love of God refreshed my dry soul, my cracked and hurting heart. My parched lips began to sing. My broken heart began to heal. You know that flood waters can be dangerous, right? Strangely enough, in this flood I was able to stand taller, stronger, and completely balanced. My feet weren't sinking in mud or being swept out from under me. I was on solid ground.


I picked up my Bible and began to read. Scriptures JUMPED off the page! Beautiful things like this:


Isaiah 43: 18-19 Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing and it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.


Isaiah 42: 8-9 I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. Behold the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.


And this:


Psalm 16:11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.


I honestly had gotten to the point of feeling I had no words, just like the scripture I quoted above. I had no words to converse. To teach. To write. To encourage. I was dried up and cracking like the ground in a long drought. Psalm 107:9 says, He satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. You see,


Only Jesus can satisfy your soul!
Only He can change your heart and make you whole;
He'll give you peace you never knew,
sweet love and joy and heaven too,
for only Jesus can satisfy your soul.
(Lanny Wolfe)


As Jesus poured over me and His healing water refreshed my aching soul, He has given me direction. I am so excited about the future! He has plans for me and continues to reveal them to me daily. My desert has turned into an oasis. Psalm 107:35 - He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.


So, may I encourage you? If you are feeling alone and dried up, just sit down, put your head in your hands and let God pour over you. Let Him satisfy your soul.