Honey Drop 28: The Drought and the Deep

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“The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose waters do not fail.” Isaiah 58:11 

The scene

During Hezekiah’s reign, Judah faced siege, scarcity, and spiritual fatigue. The Assyrian threat loomed, and the people fasted—but not always rightly. Isaiah stood in the city’s shadowed streets and declared: “The Lord will guide you continually… you shall be like a watered garden.” 
Some laughed. Some wept. But a remnant believed. And when the siege broke, and the land breathed again, they remembered: the drought had not dried them—it had deepened them.

The comfort – the tension

Your nephesh was parched. Your etsem was brittle. 
But the Lord did not abandon you to the drought. 
He guided. He satisfied. He strengthened. 
Now you are not just surviving—you are irrigated from within. 
You are a garden with memory. A spring that does not fail.

The drop

He restored your soul. He rebuilt your bones. 
Now you are a garden that sings in drought. 
A spring that remembers the rain.

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When the nation was dry, the Word dug deep. 
And those who stood in the drought became the wells for generations.