Keep the Water Coming!

“LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will suffer disgrace; those who turn away from you in the land will be written off, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.”  Jeremiah 17:13 (CEB)

Even though the calendar still shows June, things are beyond dry.  The ground is dusty and cracked, the grass; brown and crunchy.  Crops are stunted and failing – rain is desperately needed! 

As we watered, first, our little raised bed garden, and then plants on the patio this morning, I thought about how being watered will revive these plants.  The key, the secret here is to continue applying the water.  We can’t just do it today and expect them to remain perky and producing for weeks.  The watering must continue on a regular schedule.

Does this sound familiar?  How do we as Christians stay perky?  How do we remain productive in the kingdom?  WATER!!  The water must be regularly applied, the Living Water in this case.  Unless, we are being watered by prayer, daily Bible reading and studying, then we become just as parched and dry as the earth as it is right now.  Dull, dusty and cracked. 

There is however a solution to the drought.  In John’s gospel we find this passage: “On the last day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “All who are thirsty should come to me! All who believe in me should drink!  As the scriptures said concerning me, ‘Rivers of living water will flow out from him.’” (Vs.37-38)

Jesus is the answer to our parched souls.  Once we take the “drink” of the Living Water, we must stay watered.  Watering occurs by prayer and Bible study and still comes from Jesus, now seated at the Father’s right hand. 

We can use the words in the old hymn, Showers of Blessings as our meditation today.  Pray for a wide-open water nozzle!

Showers of blessing,  Showers of blessing we need;Mercy-drops round us are falling,    But for the showers we plead.