Streams In The Desert

. . . and that Rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:4

Have you experienced deserts in your life? Ever felt you were wandering in a wilderness, surrounded by problems, hemmed in by distress? Charles Weigle was an itinerant evangelist who enjoyed traveling and preaching, despite the rigors of the road. His wife, however, grew disillusioned with her frequently absent husband. One day Charles returned home to find this note: “Charlie, I’ve been a fool. I’ve done without a lot of things. . . . From here on out, I’m getting all I can of what the world owes me. I know you’ll continue to be a fool for Jesus, but for me it’s good-bye!”

Charles was stunned, and depression swept over him like a tidal wave. One day, sitting on the porch of a cottage in Florida, he contemplated suicide. Your work is finished, said an inner voice. No one cares . . . But another voice pierced his gloom: Charlie, I haven’t forgotten you . . . I care for you. Instantly, Charles was on his knees, rededicating himself to Christ.

Sometime later, he wrote the words to the well-known gospel song: “No one ever cared for me like Jesus; there’s no other friend so kind as He. No one else could take the sin and darkness from me; O how much He cared for me.”

He cares for you too—even in the desert.