Daily Devotional

Isaiah provides us with two reasons to praise God—God’s wrath has been removed and God’s favor has been restored. We do not stand in a neutral state before God. The moment God’s anger is assuaged, God’s favor is restored. Guilt, remorse and other burdens of sin are removed; in their place, we have a sweet reassurance of God’s acceptance of us, even though we are still far from perfect.
Isaiah proclaims that God is the One who saves, and because God saves, God is worthy of our trust. This led to the use of a word picture that was filled with significance for the Hebrew people—the drawing of water. Other than air, there is nothing so important to life as is water.
Like water, Isaiah describes the deliverance of God as providing refreshment to parched and dying souls. Like water, God’s deliverance cleanses our souls from the sin which defiled them. The water of God’s redemption produces our growth into spiritual maturity and the fulfillment of our divine purpose.
Isaiah describes this water as coming from “wells” of salvation—not brooks, which are full in spring and dry in summer. In God’s redemption, the supply of divine joy is endless.
We should remember that it’s not the well that we need, but the water in the well. For many, coming to the well is perfunctory, religious activity. But we must understand that the well is merely a channel through which the water—refreshing, cleansing, growth-producing—is made available to us. Thus, it is far more important that we have the water than the well.
Our trust is not in the well—the Church—but in the Water—Jesus!

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