Will you not revive us again,
that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. Ps. 85:6–7
Lord Jesus, it’s amazing what even one really good downpour can move our sunbaked yards from parched brown to lavish green. I can run my sprinkler endlessly, but there’s just something about the water that falls from the sky that brings restoration and renewal like no other aquatic supply.
Our hearts are no different. When we grow brown, dry, and crispy on the inside—when our delighting in you morphs into coolness towards you (and others), we need what only you can give us, Jesus. There’s no hose, fire hydrant, or reservoir of our own making that can renew our hearts.
So we cry out with the Psalmist, “Show us your unfailing love, O Lord, grant us your salvation.” It was your unfailing love that first brought life to our deadness, and turned our mourning into dancing. Likewise, it’s your unfailing, unwavering, unparalleled love that will “green” our hearts.
You have promised to “satisfy our needs in a sun-scorched land” and “strengthen our frame.” You have promised that we will be “like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail” (Isa. 58:11). You have invited the thirsty to come and drink freely of living water—Spirit-water (John 7:37-39). Thank you, Jesus.
We boldly come before you this June Monday, praying what you pray for us—the fullness of your joy (John 17:13). You suffered the ultimate thirst of the cross, so we’ll never thirst again. Renew in us the joy of our salvation, the gladness of grace, the merriment of mercy. So very Amen we pray, in your loving and powerful name.