Some seasons of life seem to be particularly tough. The schedule is already full and then life throws sickness, relational challenges, death and tragedy right in the middle of it. I am walking through the valley of the shadow of death and I need a drink.
This is life. Life is difficult. I am old enough to embrace the reality of a hard life. I am also not the type to sit around moaning about troubled times. Life happens. Death will come to us all. Dry times are part of what make the good times so good. Electricity never feels better than after you been without it. A hot shower always feels better after a missions trip. Your own bed never felt better than after a night on the couch. ha. Pleasure is so often enhanced because we know life to be so often full of pain.
In the middle of the tough times and the dry times I am encouraged today that we, as believers in Christ, always have a drink available.
1 Corinthians 10:4 And they all drank the same spiritual (supernaturally given) drink. For they drank from a spiritual Rock which followed them [produced by the sole power of God Himself without natural instrumentality], and the Rock was Christ.
This is one reason Jesus is better than anything or anyone else. This is one of the reasons I will NEVER TRUST ANY OTHER WAY THAN JESUS...He always was Gods plan for us. Even thousands of years ago when God lead the people out of slavery, who was there with them? Jesus. he was the water in the dry and thirsty land.
Fast forward to when Jesus came to earth as a man. He meets this six time loser woman at the well who was understandably tired of her life. He told her that if she would only ask then he would give her a drink that would turn into eternal life and she would "never thirst again". She gave in and He became not only a drink but a way of life and peace.
"give me this drink" she said from the deepest part of her dry soul. Jesus floods every soul that asks. I know from personal experience what this drink is like. He has become in me a river and a well that is a source of life.
Father, thank you that in the middle of everything and anything I face I can drink deeply of Jesus Christ. You walk through the alley with us. You provide a table of food for us and you lie us down beside still waters. I turn to you today for a drink my soul needs. Lord, don't give me what i think i want but rather what i really need....a drink from YOU ALONE. Amen
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Amen, Rob. Let us come to Him and drink Living Water! How refreshing is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! You know the most beautiful pictures are developed in the "dark room." Sometimes those dark places are just what we need to be fully developed for His honor and glory.
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