Oasis In The Desert...

This life offers a variety of experiences. Some challenging and some wonderful. Some enriching and some impoverishing. Some it gives and some times it takeS away. In all of these back-and-forth realities we better know how to be refreshed. Because we’re going to need that…
“They came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They set up camp there by the water. ~Ex. 15:27
By now it was probably dawning on the Israelites that the wilderness was a harsh place to live. If it hadn’t been for a miracle at the last stopping point they wouldn’t even have had water to drink. But that was yesterday. Today they looked up and saw palm trees in the distance. They probably thought it was a mirage. But no, when they got there they found springs of water, green foliage and actual palm trees. I almost guarantee that they all let out a sigh as they looked upon the beauty contrasted against the wilderness all around it. I like this Elim part of their story. It’s so picturesque of a mankind’s need for refreshment. And it’s somehow a rather accurate picture of life. A good part of our experience on this earth has a wilderness quality to it. We get up early, we work hard, tomorrow we do it again, it’s three steps forward and two steps backwards like we’re waking in sand, and then there’s Murphy’s law. And then we look up and there before us is our Lord, welcoming us and celebrating us and caring for us and resting us and refreshing us…our OASIS IN THE DESERT! ~Verlon