Water in the wilderness
Psalm 84
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools
They go from strength to strengıh.
Psalm 84:6-7
Psalm 84 is a beautiful and liberating psalm. One of the glorious themes of his psalm is chat the negatives of human life do not have to be victorious over us because there is a power that can break their depressing hold.
The psalmist speaks about passing through the Valley of Baca, and although no one knows exactly what this refers to, it seems to speak of a place of great dryness. The writer alludes to an experience of extreme difficulty that the presence of sufficient water would solve. We find that the Lord provides refreshing streams and pools of water.
Have you found yourself in a place of great dryness spiritually, emotionally, or even mentally? Do you know that there is One who can break through the dryness in your heart and produce streams in the desert?
The resources of another world can be made available to enable you and me to face the dryness in our lives just as waters were provided to help the psalmist through the Valley of Baca.
We can find comfort in the fact that the psalmist remembered God’s provision of food and water to the Israelites as they passed through the wilderness. God did not desert the Israelites, and he will not forsake us.
The knowledge that there is another world, that there is One in that world who cares about us and is able to provide for us, enables us to see our situation in a new light.
This is an excerpt from a book This Day with the Master by Dennis F. Kinlaw. If you would like to buy this book please click here.