Streams in the Desert May 26 Daily Devotional

Spring up, 0 well; sing ye unto it (Num. 21:1 7).
This was a strange song and a strange well. They had been traveling over the desert' s barren sands, no water was in sight and they
were famishing with thirst Then God spake to Moses and said:
"Gather the people together, and I will give them water," and this is how it came.
They gathered in circles on the sands. They took their staves and dug deep down into the burning earth and as they dug, they sang, "Spring up, 0 well, sing ye unto it," and lo, there came a gurgling sound, a rush of water and a flowing stream which filled the well
and ran along the ground.
When they dug this well in the desert, they touched the stream that was running beneath, and reached the flowing tides that had long been out of sight.
How beautiful the picture given, telling us of the river of
blessing that flows a through our fives, and we have only to reach by faith and praise to find our wants supplied in the most barren desert.
How did they reach the waters of this well? It was by praise. They sang upon the sand their song of faith, while with their staff of
promise they dug the well.
Our praise will still open fountains in the desert when murmuring will only bring us judgment and even prayer may fail to reach the fountains of blessing.
There is nothing that pleases the Lord so much as praise. There Is no test of kith so true as the grace of thanksgiving. Are you
Praising God enough? Are you thanking Him for your actual
blessings.that are more than can be numbered, and are you daring to praise Him even for those trials which are but blessings in
disguise? Have you learned to praise Him in advance for the things that have not yet come? --Selected
Thou waitest for deliverance! 0 soul, thou waitest long!
Believe that now deliverance Doth wait for thee in song!
Sigh not until deliverance
Thy fettered feet doth free:
With songs of glad deliverance God now doth compass thee.