Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 78 verses 15 through 20:
15 He split the hard rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as from the great deep.
16 He brought streams out of the cliff,
and the waters gushed out like rivers.
17 But they went on sinning against him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
18 They tested God in their hearts,
demanding food for their craving.
19 They railed against God and said,
"Can God set a table in the wilderness?
20 True, he struck the rock, the waters gushed out, and the
gullies overflowed;
but is he able to give bread
or to provide meat for his people?"
God buried the water of life deep within us long ago. This is a part of God’s prevenient grace in the world — that the rains fall thousands, hundreds of thousands, an eternity before the people travel the wilderness road.
The water is hidden and very, very deep. A well must be dug. The Rock must be tapped. The Rock is the living Christ within us all.
Trust the Rock. Trust that there is water and water enough in the cliffs which surround you and beneath the path that is before you. The wilderness is dry and daunting. The wilderness is terrifying. Yet the wilderness path is the only way to discover the water within.
The LORD told the prophet Hosea, “The wilderness will lead you to your heart where I will speak,” (Hosea 2:14). The wilderness is the way. It is the only way.
We have to take it.
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