Lent Devotion | Day 13

Isaiah 58:11 (NIV)

The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

In chapter 58 of Isaiah, God is challenging the people of God into true and authentic worship of him through fasting. Rather than just going through the motion to check off the box, God urges us to come near to him in true worship with a pure heart and full trust in him. It is then that he will fulfill his promises to set the oppressed free and break our chains. It is then that he will be our guide and satisfy our needs.

So, on this day (and every day), examine your heart, invite God to search your heart for any obstacle that keeps you from true worship.

Do this and experience God's blessing that your soul will be a well-watered garden whose waters never fail.