Streams in the Desert February 29 Daily Devotional

Launch out into the deep (Luke 5:4).
How deep He does not say. The depth into which we launch will depend upon how perfectly we have given up the shore, and the greatness of our need, and the apprehension of our possibilities. The fish were to be found in the deep, not in the shallow water.
So with us; our needs are to be met in the deep things of God. We
are to launch out into the deep of God's Word, which the Spirit can
open up to us in such crystal fathomless meaning that the same
words we have accepted in times past will have an ocean meaning in them, which renders their first meaning to us very shallow.
Into the deep of the Atonement until Christ's precious blood is so illuminated by the Spirit that it becomes an omnipotent balm, and food and medicine for the soul and body.
Into the deep of the Father's will, until we apprehend It in its
infinite minuteness and goodness, and its far-sweeping provision

and care for us.
Into the deep of the Holy Spirit until He becomes a bright
dazzling, sweet fathomless summer sea, in which we bathe and bask and breathe, and lose ourselves and our sorrows in the calmness and peace of His everlasting presence.
Into the deep of the Holy Spirit until He becomes a bright
marvelous answer to prayer, the most careful and tender guidance, the most thoughtful anticipation of our needs, the most accurate
and supernatural shaping of our events.
Into the deep of God's purposes and coming kingdom, until the
Lord's coming and His millennial reign are opened up to us; and
beyond these the bright entrancing ages on ages unfold themselves,
until the mental eye is dazed with fight and the heart flutters with inexpressible anticipations of its joy with Jesus and the glory to be revealed.
Into all these things, Jesus bids us launch. He made us and He made the deep, and to its fathomless depths He has fitted our longings
and capabilities. --Soul Food.
Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each; Enough forevermore.
The deep waters of the Holy Spirit are always accessible, because they are always proceeding. Will you not this day claim afresh to
be immersed and drenched in these waters of life? The waters in Ezekiel's vision first of all oozed from under the doors of the
temple. Then the man with the measuring fine measured and found the waters to the ankles. Still further measurement and they were
waters to the knees. Once again they were measured and the waters to the loins. Then they became waters to swim in-a river that could
not be passed over (Read Ezekiel 47). How far have we advanced into
this river of life? The Holy Spirit would have a complete self
effacement Not merely ankle-deep, knee-deep, loin-deep, but
self-deep. We ourselves hidden out of sight and bathed in this
life-giving stream. Let go the shore-fines and launch out Into the deep. Never forget, the Man with the measuring fine is with us
today. --J.G.M.