What are you drinking?

 

That subject line looks kind of risque now that I reread it (...What are you drinking?).  It sounds like a line from a thousand bar scenes from movie and tv shows.  Lately I've been trying to drink less soda and more natural juices.  Like my mom says, the soda just has empy calories.  Actually it has less than that...no calories as well as no nutrition.  I wonder how I came to like something that is nothing?!  But we all satisfy our thirsts somehow and of course, in the natural, we must continually replenish our supply of water.  We need to drink about half a gallon of water per day just to keep the body going properly.  When Jesus met the Samaritan woman (John chapter 4) He told her that the water she was drawing from the well would just satisfy her temporarily.  But there is another kind of filling that washes and fills us and restores the vitality of our spiritual nature.  This "long lasting" water is the Holy Spirit and the well, or source, is Jesus. 

 

John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

 

Are you feeling parched within?  Is there a dryness to life?  Have you ever bought one of those new sponges that is as flat as a pancake and then watched it expand under a faucet of water?  Why not be a sponge for the water that springs up to eternity, whose source is the author of life!!

 

blessings to each one,

Rob Smith