While grocery shopping for my family I focused on how to keep them hydrated. I bought grapes, watermelon, Popsicles, and Roar'in waters. I stocked our garage refrigerator/freezer with the Popsicles and the waters so that the boys could get to them while outside playing, and easily offer them to a buddy, who also may be in need of a cool drink. I am ready now for the heat of summer.
Our bodies are about 70% water. It is reccommended to not go more than three days without water, however we can survive approximately 8-14 days depending on our size and output. Water is crucially important for our survival.
It got me thinking about "living water" hydration. Jesus talks about the living water in John 4:1-26.
I think that Jesus is telling us that the Holy Spirit is the living water and is essential to our survivial, just as water is to our physical survival. In order to have this living water we must develop a relationship with Christ by spending time in prayer and in His word.
The living water that Jesus offers, gives us wholeness, peace and eternal life. To drink now from Jesus’ teachings is to have the well of God in our very being. As our thirst begins to be quenched, the spring of God flows out to the broken around us, drawing others in to have a drink!
Dear God,
We thank you for the gift of Your Son, who taught us how we should live out lives. Allow us to drink from Your Word until we are quenched to overflowing so that others can be drawn in to You. Give us courage to share what You are doing in our lives with others, so that they may have the give of salvation that only You can give. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Psalm 42:1 "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you..."
Psalm 107:8-9 "Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things."
John 4:14 "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."
Revelation 22:17 "The Spirit and the bride say, "Come! And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life"
Drink it in
Look His way
Open yourself to Him
Allow Him to energize and fill you
Believe in Him and yeild you existance to Him
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And may we be like the woman at the well, so amazed by Jesus that we must tell everyone! "Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony." (john 4:39).
And they said "We know that this man really is the Savior of the world." (v.42)
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