Panic infused the citizens of Jerusalem. An enemy approached, merciless and bent on destruction. They shored up the walls of the city, tearing down houses to rebuild the breaches. They gathered food and even built a new reservoir to hold water during the inevitable siege.

Yet in all the hurried preparations they left out the Lord.

You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it.

Everyone worked together to save all the water they could, but they ignored the Creator of water, the only One who might possibly save them.

How much work do I do, making plans and executing them—building reservoirs—without acknowledging the One who created it all in the first place?

Of course as a minister I start things with a perfunctory prayer, but that’s often the end of the religious part and then I’m off to work.

I’m reminded to make time to remember and pray and seek to understand my dependence on the One who created all that’s around me. My efforts don’t amount to much without the Lord. My reservoirs spring a leak.

I build reservoirs to hold water that eventually stagnates and dries up. The Lord provides springs of living water continually overflowing. Which would you choose to drink from?

Isaiah 22 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

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