Deserts into pools of water

https://odb.org/2024/06/28/seeing-a-future-of-hope

If you travel from Egypt to Israel via the Rafah crossing, the unfortunate scene of the current Israeli-Hamas war, you will notice a distinct change in the landscape. From parching desertlands to green agricultural farms and vegetation. The change of scenery is spectacular, to say the least, and as a believer, you can not help but marvel at the mighty power of God. Isaiah spoke of this thousands of years before in Isaiah 41:18 – I will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into springs.

Modern-day Israel is thus a testament to the divine grace and goodness of God. Of course, if you are into documentary programmes, you will know that irrigating water from the mountains for farming is something done since ancient times like in the grape growing (to make raisins) Muslim minority communties in China along the ancient silk road to the the west. There is another city in China where the source of water from their great lake comes from glaciers in the mountains. In the case of Israel, the wonder of science and technology (and God’s provision) was the ability to bring fresh water from the Sea of Galilee down south over many kilometres to grow agri produce in desert places.

Taken in a spititual sense, this speaks of God being able to change our own parched desertlands into pools of water. It speaks of turning our barrenness into fruitfulness. It speaks of turning our poverty into prosperity. In our own lives and our church. It speaks of transforming the same old boring stuff again and again into fresh experiences of joy and mercy. Dullness into sparkles of colour and light. Weariness into smiles of joy.

My prayer for us today is that we will all begin to experience a revival in our spirit in the days to come, that there will be a great outpouring of His anointing and the Holy Spirit upon our lives, that many lives will be set free to know the Lord and many bondages and chains will be broken. May the heavens be opened in these last days for mankind to experience God in special transformative ways that His plans and purposes will be fulfilled in our lives for His glory!