"Good News for the Spiritually Dry"

“Growing Through a Dry Season”

“Good News for the Spiritually Dry”

We're not hopeless nor rejected just because we are spiritually dry.

Dry seasons are the result of conditions that have cut us off from the vitality and productivity that we previously experienced.

“If it is cut down” (v7b) - something has interrupted, hindered, or cut off the vitality; circumstances that led to current status

“grow old in the earth” (v8a) - Drying up; not being fed & watered as in the past

“its stump may die in the ground” (v8b) - Dry & lack of evidence of life

The New American Commentary: Job For All Humankind (14:7–12)

Trees often come to life even though they have been felled because the root system is intact.

A Handbook on the Book of Job Job 14:7

The hope expressed for the tree is that being cut down is not the end of its life.

A Handbook on the Book of Job Job 14:7

“If someone cuts down a tree, there is hope for it to sprout again” or “We can hope that a tree that has been cut down will sprout again.”

If it be cut down, that it will sprout again expresses both the condition and the consequences.

The New American Commentary: Job For All Humankind (14:7–12)

Trees often come to life even though they have been felled because the root system is intact.

The New American Commentary: Job For All Humankind (14:7–12)

The noun form of the verb “sprout” occurs in v. 14 translated “renewal.”

The New American Commentary: Job For All Humankind (14:7–12)

life is still present despite appearances.

Job: An Introduction and Commentary vi. Job (12:1–14:22)

First a tree (7–10), apparently dead (8), has an astonishing capacity to revive at the mere scent of water (9).

Dry seasons don’t have to be a death sentences

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NKJV)

Hebrews 13:5 NKJV

5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

“At the scent of water” - doesn’t take a lot; just a little bit of refreshing can cause life to sprout again

Acts 3:19 NKJV

19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,