Living Water
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TRY SOME LIVING WATER It was hot and I ran out of water in the middle of the afternoon. I had about 3 more miles to walk back to the truck. I had already hiked 4 hours. |
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I was not really miserable with thirst yet, but I was getting there. The sky was a brassy intense blue and the air crackled from the low humidity. In this dry climate, we get less than 9 inches of rain per year and much of that comes as snow in the winter. I kept thinking about water.
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In our Church the Pastor has been teaching from the book of Jeremiah. In the second chapter, verse 13 the Lord says, “My people have committed 2 sins: They have forsaken Me, the Spring of Living water, and have dug their own cisterns that cannot hold water.” |
As I walked along I was thinking about the living water in contrast to the broken cistern water. We do not have cisterns here, but we have something similar, mud tanks. Like cisterns these are low places in the mountains that catch snow and runoff. Mud tanks have no outflow. The water sits there until it evaporates. The water in mud tanks is still, dark and stagnant. I wondered why people would perfer cistern or mud tank water to living water. Then I remembered that you see your reflection in still water. Humans seem to love to look at themselves rather than God, nature or others. While we are tied up in self involvement we miss the beauty and joy around us.
In the Gospel of John, Chapter 4; verse 13 Jesus tells the Samaritan woman, “. . . But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life”.
Forget yourself. Come to the Living Water. Forget the dark reflection of the world and enjoy the Spring of Living Water for ever.