ISAIAH 58:11
The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
- guide you continually,
- satisfy your soul in drought,
- strengthen your bones,
- make you a flourishing garden, and
- make you a never-failing spring of water.
1) The Lord will guide. He is not setting us on a twisting, curving path with a maze of roads to choose from without help. He is with us. He will guide us continually. With God, the connection is never broken. He is on task with us, ready to help us twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. He takes no vacations.
2) The Lord will satisfy your soul in drought. Before I was walking with the Lord, I sometimes felt a longing in my soul for something that would satisfy. The emptiness was, I now know, my soul calling out to be filled by God, with the things of God, His Word, fellowship with God and other believers, and the Holy Spirit. In times of drought which occur even after we believe and walk with God, God will bring satisfaction to our soul. He feeds our souls with “God things”, e.g. His presence, His Word, and His blessings.
3) The Lord will strengthen your bones. He will strengthen us physically, healing us and giving us the stamina to serve Him. When we ask to be strengthened for His work, His call, He gives us the strength and energy to do good works in His name. If we need healing in our bodies, He will do that work.
4) He promises to make us watered gardens, lush with fruit (of the spirit) and never lacking in the living water (Jesus Christ). Psalm 1:3 says that the man who delights and meditates in God’s law “shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 says, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”
