Digging Wells

"Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the ways of them, who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well; the rain also fills the pools. They go from strength to strength—every one of them in Zion appears before God." Psalm 84:5-7

Last month Bruce and I went to Texas to enjoy his brother and sister-in-law. As we arrived, we noticed just how dead everything was due to a major drought. While we were there it seemed that rain was on everyone’s mind we encountered. One day brought some temporary hope as the morning was met with covered skies of gray clouds. Hope rose all through the day until finally the cloud got its relief with an explosion of rain…for ten minutes. The downpour was violent and came as forcefully as it left. This explosion of rain was void of any lasting benefit.

This reminded me of our faith and how many times we pray for rain in our drought. Our minds are shot and our hearts are parched. We storm heaven for prayers of saturation. We plead, beg and negotiate with God to send a little rain…even if it is a few drops. But our prayers are lifted with dry and cracked hearts from a history of neglect to our faith. However, God will be faithful but His healing rain may take a while to penetrate, moisten and saturate before we see the benefit.

In life, we will experience droughts but the devastation of our droughts will be determined by how saturated our land is when the drought hits. Have we allowed the constant drizzle of God’s word to fall upon our land leading up to the drought? Do we spend time before the Lord allowing His word to fall upon our hearts in a steady and constant shower? Our land must be tended to in the days, weeks, months and years leading up to those arid times.

We must dig our wells daily to allow a place for God’s rain to accumulate so we will have a reserve when we experience our droughts.