Today's Daily Lesson comes from Isaiah chapter 48 verse 21:
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split the rock and the water gushed out.
My friend, and Lubbock song-writing legend Andy Wilkinson has a line in one of his poems which describes the Llano Estacado escarpment as a place "where wind is plentiful and rain must be dug up before a crop can grow."
I love that; rain is buried in the rock and so it must be dug up from deep inside the earth. We say, "Pray for rain." But most of the rain we need has already fallen. It is down deep within rock.
The Israelites sought their freedom from the Egyptians, and crossing the Red Sea they came into the wilderness where there was no water. They cried and complained to Moses and to God. "Have you brought us here to die of thirst!"
But there was water. It had rained. For what, millennia? For eons? Since the foundation of the earth? They waited and prayed for it to rain there in the desert. But it had rained; and the rain was waiting on them. But the rain had to be dug up. God had already provided; but the water was deep within.
For those of us who wish for freedom, those of us who seek deliverance from bondage of many kinds, and to those of us who dare to cross the Sea, escape our Egypt, and discover what it means to live no longer as a slave, God has already provided the water. The resources to survive whatever wilderness we will have to walk are already there. The rain is already there, within the rock -- within us. God already sent it -- from before the foundation of the earth.
And now it's waiting on us to discover it and dig it up.
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