Today is a Monday, it's raining outside and very gloomy. I used to hate these kind of days. They seemed to make me even more depressed than usual. But today, as I look out, I can still hear the birds singing piercing through the deluge of rain. Encouragement came all over me. Although the sun isn't shining and the clouds are grey, it's because of the rain, that the dry ground, now has moisture. The dry places are nourished again. The flowers and plants that had wilted were now perky and showing life. The pond behind my house that had began to dry up was filling back up again. All the areas that longed for nourishment were finally getting well deserved water.
I can relate to the vegetation that was drying up for lack of rain. I've been there, I'm sure you have experienced 'dry places' as well. We, sometimes, don't even realize the areas in our lives that have dried up and need the rain. Once it comes, though, we come alive inside. There is a scripture in the Bible that refers to us allowing God to 'wash us with the watering of His Word'. We need to allow God's Word into our lives, daily, so that it can't nourish the dry bones, renew the areas of our lives that have become parched. When we allow the 'dry places' in our lives to remain dry, then, when the 'fires of life' come upon us we can become consumed with nothing left but ashes. It's important to let God's Word 'wash' these places so that life will bloom again and the chance for our ashes being blown away are not possible.
Let God wash your 'dry places' with His Word today. Ignore 'man's dead words', you know, those words that don't bring life to you. Find a time today to hear God's voice or simply read a 'daily devotion' and pour His 'Word's of Life' into your soul for nourishment. Start your week off right...Your BEST is YET to come!
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