Issue 1727 – Refreshing – May 13, 2025
It was summer, and I was up on the mountaintop, digging fossilized fish and plants. Kathy opted to stay back on the valley floor with the dog, where it was relatively cool and shady.
The dig was on private property and appropriately licensed. I toiled away for a couple of hours baking under the sun and realized I had left my water bottle in the car.
Eventually, I made my way back down the winding path, carrying several ore bags full of samples. I was parched to the point of feeling weak. Kathy met me at the bottom with a cold bottle of water fresh from the cooler.
I don’t remember a bottle of water ever tasting that good before.
In most of North America, we take fresh drinking water for granted. Very seldom, and even then for no more than a couple of days, have I not had plenty of water to drink on demand.
The people of the Middle East are accustomed to the experience of being thirsty. They are aware from personal experience how personal a commodity is.
They know how refreshing a cold drink of water can be on a hot day.
Two of the more common biblical metaphors for the love of God are water and living water.
You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:1-3
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” John 4:13-15
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. Revelation 22:17
Remember a time when you were the hottest and thirstiest you have ever been. Now, picture the refreshment of a cold glass of water.
That refreshment is nothing compared to the refreshment from the well of salvation. The Lord’s living water refreshes like nothing else ever will.
Allow your thirst for love, forgiveness, and acceptance to be eternally satisfied by His living water.
Drink deeply.
Be Blessed
Hallelu Yah / Praise God
Kevin
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Soli Deo Gloria (For the glory of God alone)
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