Restoring the Spark of Life in Life part 2
#191 Restoring the Spark of Life in Life Isaiah 12.3 Part 2
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.” Isa. 12:2-3!
What gets in the way of experiencing JOY in His deliverance?
The first thing to determine is what spring are we drawing water from. the spring of discouragement or the springs of deliverance. “For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:13 We can use the principle within this verse to bring home an important fact. When we pursue our perspectives and ways of looking at ourselves and others we are forsaking the source of living waters. We create our own broken receptacles that are unable to retain life giving refreshment. We have a choice.
What makes us able to draw refreshment from the source of salvation?
The wells of salvation is a metaphor of special appeal to an Eastern people which depended for life upon wells. (Soncino) Without water there is no life. Drinking joyously from the depths of God’s provision and deliverance is a matter of spiritual survival! The spiritual water that keeps us spiritually hydrated and refreshed in the wilderness is from HIM.
INSTEAD of thoughts centered on “Impossibility” or “failure,” we center on the inspiration of WHO HE IS and His power on our behalf!
When your behavior is unfitting for one in My kingdom, do not try to throw off your royal robe [the robe of righteousness]. Instead, throw off the unrighteous behavior. Sarah Young
That thought really struck me. We have been given a standing of innocence before God through Christ, a beautiful costly robe. Yet when we sin we may tend cast aside our innocence in Christ and clothe ourselves in shame. But He calls us to cast the ungodly thoughts and actions aside, and thus to value the robe.
We urge such, while they lift up their heads and rejoice, knowing that their redemption draweth night, to lay aside every weight and hindrance, and to run patiently the race in which they have started. Look away from self and it’s unavoidable weaknesses and imperfections, knowing that all such weaknesses are covered fully by the merits of the ransom given by Christ Jesus our Lord, and that your sacrifices and self-denials are acceptable to God through our Redeemer and Lord—and thus only. Let us remember that the strength sufficient which God has promised us, and by use of which we can be “overcomers,” is provided in His Word. It is a strength derived from a knowledge of His character and plans, and of the conditions upon which we may share in them. A 346
“Consider and answer me, O LORD, my God; Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death…But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation. I will sing to the LORD, because He has dealt bountifully with me.” Psalm 13: 3, 5-6
Enlighten our eyes.
Open our eyes to see Your unfailing love.
Open our eyes to rejoice in the life giving waters of your deliverance and provision.
Open our eyes to see Your bountiful dealings in our lives.
Open our eyes to BEHOLD YOU, with delight and surprise.
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.” Isa. 12:2-3!
What gets in the way of experiencing JOY in His deliverance?
The first thing to determine is what spring are we drawing water from. the spring of discouragement or the springs of deliverance. “For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:13 We can use the principle within this verse to bring home an important fact. When we pursue our perspectives and ways of looking at ourselves and others we are forsaking the source of living waters. We create our own broken receptacles that are unable to retain life giving refreshment. We have a choice.
What makes us able to draw refreshment from the source of salvation?
The wells of salvation is a metaphor of special appeal to an Eastern people which depended for life upon wells. (Soncino) Without water there is no life. Drinking joyously from the depths of God’s provision and deliverance is a matter of spiritual survival! The spiritual water that keeps us spiritually hydrated and refreshed in the wilderness is from HIM.
INSTEAD of thoughts centered on “Impossibility” or “failure,” we center on the inspiration of WHO HE IS and His power on our behalf!
When your behavior is unfitting for one in My kingdom, do not try to throw off your royal robe [the robe of righteousness]. Instead, throw off the unrighteous behavior. Sarah Young
That thought really struck me. We have been given a standing of innocence before God through Christ, a beautiful costly robe. Yet when we sin we may tend cast aside our innocence in Christ and clothe ourselves in shame. But He calls us to cast the ungodly thoughts and actions aside, and thus to value the robe.
We urge such, while they lift up their heads and rejoice, knowing that their redemption draweth night, to lay aside every weight and hindrance, and to run patiently the race in which they have started. Look away from self and it’s unavoidable weaknesses and imperfections, knowing that all such weaknesses are covered fully by the merits of the ransom given by Christ Jesus our Lord, and that your sacrifices and self-denials are acceptable to God through our Redeemer and Lord—and thus only. Let us remember that the strength sufficient which God has promised us, and by use of which we can be “overcomers,” is provided in His Word. It is a strength derived from a knowledge of His character and plans, and of the conditions upon which we may share in them. A 346
“Consider and answer me, O LORD, my God; Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death…But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation. I will sing to the LORD, because He has dealt bountifully with me.” Psalm 13: 3, 5-6
Enlighten our eyes.
Open our eyes to see Your unfailing love.
Open our eyes to rejoice in the life giving waters of your deliverance and provision.
Open our eyes to see Your bountiful dealings in our lives.
Open our eyes to BEHOLD YOU, with delight and surprise.
