I thought about this today. Is it possible to drink a glass of water and go the rest of the week with not one more drop. Our bodies would soon become dehydrated, we would soon lose energy, soon we would be unable to focus on even the mundane task. Water....is essential....without it our bodies cannot function. Without it every system begins to shut down. But yet so many Christ followers do just that. We attend church on Sunday morning....take a drink of the water that is offered and then begin to plow through our weeks, expecting to be refreshed and ready to tackle the world.
Christ said in John 7:37 "If anyone is thristy, let him come to me and drink." "Come to Me." What is it that we turn to the moment we walk out of the church building on a sunday morning? Are we "in the world" or are we "of the world." When we thrist during the week, where do we turn? God gave us thrist? Because without thirst we would not seek water. But he has told us that if we drink of the "water" that "He" gives us... we will never thirst again. In Jeremiah 2:13 the Lord says " my people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
Have you ever been through one of those weeks where you knew something was missing, something just wasn't right? You tried to fill the days with what you thought you needed to accomplish but there still seemed to be something missing. Many Christ followers today, do just that. They attend church on sunday and travel the rest of the week on that one glass of water. Never to tap into the well again. They do this week after week after week. Then they wonder why he fails them. Who's the one failing. He gives freely of his water, we just need to go to the tap to get a drink.
Where will you go when you get thirsty this week?
3 comments:
Beautifully put Tammy! Just a thought to add...When we finally do realize that we need that "water" all week long and we begin to drink on a regular basis we wonder how we ever survived! And often times we realize that we were doing just that - surviving - not Living!
You are so right!! I don't think we really recognized what we were thirsty for until we drank all week long. Now were just a bunch of spirit drinking fools. LOL
AMEN!! Beautifully put! I say it another way..Sunday's are my day to "recharge" my complete system, but throughout the week, seeking, praying, obeying along with the love & presence of our church family I'm able to sustain & endure until the next Sunday.
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