September 5, 2007

• Living Water

   

  
  

  A few days ago the motor in our well burned out  leaving us with no water the rest of the night and into the early afternoon of the following day. No water to drink or brush our teeth before bedtime, take a bath, wash our face upon rising or to flush toilets or wash our hands afterwards.  ( I had some sanitizing gel (PTL!) which I was SO thankful for!)  I normally keep jugs of water on hand just for emergencies like this but had used them up during the winter. I won’t make that mistake again! 

  
  

  The next morning I was feeling really ‘thirsty’ for some fresh, clean water. I had diet sodas on hand but they did not quench my thirst. They just left me thirsting for more. My body was feeling sweaty from not having bathed the night before so at 8:30am I couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to jump in our pool for a quick ‘bath’. Boy, did I enjoy that! I stepped out of that pool feeling so clean!

  
  

  For the first time in my life I really saw the significant value of water. I missed it! I thought about it A LOT. I felt the loss of it. I was really hungering for it. As the day went on I could sense the Holy Spirit using this simple experience to remind me of my spiritual thirst for Christ.

  
  

  David prayed, “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts  for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water” (Ps 63:1).

  
  

  Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,  but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14

  
  

  Nothing in this world satisfies like drinking from the cool, spring of living water found in Jesus. How often do I go elsewhere, though, to satisfy my thirst? How often do I set aside that cool, refreshing drink found in His Word (for He IS the Word, Jn. 1:1) and instead try to satisfy my thirst with the dry wells of this world? **  In the mornings do I run to His Word and drink deep or do I seek out the empty cisterns of the computer, television or just the busyness of the cares in my home?

  
  

  When I choose to order my days to drink at the well of living water then I come away from my time with Him having my thirst satisfied. It’s a choice… and most mornings I must fight for it! But, boy, is it worth the fight!

  
  

  Only Jesus satisfies…

  
  

   
  **In the Old Testament we read about cisterns being dug in the earth to store water but since the ground was porous the people would return only to find that the water they were thirsting for had run out from a crack in the ground and all that was left was muddy, dirty water.  In Jeremiah 2:13, God uses that example to rebuke His people who had forsaken Him, the fountain of living waters, and dug cisterns instead… broken cisterns that hold no water.

  
  

  (Don’t forget about the great tool found on the internet to memorize God’s Word. http://biblememory.us  The man who owns the site will set it up so that you can choose your own scriptures to memorize, if you’d like. Or you can just use the ones he provides. Easy, easy way to memorize God’s Word. )

  
  

  
  
   

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