THAT’S IT!
” And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.“- Isaiah 58:11
In his autobiography, Warren Wiersbe described his struggles with getting older. “There are times when I feel like a dinosaur,” he wrote. He described one drizzly day when his arthritis was acting up. “I asked the Lord in my morning devotional time to give me a promise that would sustain me for the ‘declining’ years to come. (No sense fooling myself!) In the course of my regular Bible reading I came to Isaiah 58:11; and I said, ‘That’s it! Thank you, Lord!’”
It’s a promise for us all. Whether we’re young or old, we face pain, problems, and unknown possibilities for the future. Sometimes we feel beat up. But God’s grace is sufficient, and He uses difficulties to cultivate us like a well-watered garden. Obedience to Him provides the opportunity, through trials, to learn that our only hope is His sufficiency, not our own.–Turning Point
F. B. Meyer said, “I do hope my Father will let the river of my life go glowing fully till the finish. I don’t want to end up in a swamp.”
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
