Family of God: [FamilyofGod] Need a drink?

Judy Moon

I serve a risen Savior, Jesus

http://JudyMoonsHome.com

SPIRITUAL DEHYDRATION

Physically if we do not take in enough water we become dehydrated. To hydrate is to supply water to (a person, for example) in order to restore or maintain the necessary fluid balance. When we are burning with fever we become dehydrated and fever is part of our bodies' defense mechanism. When we are fighting an infection our body temperature rises. We need to take in water to prevent dehydration during this affliction.

God is described as Living Water in the Old Testament:

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water." (Jeremiah 2:13)

A cistern was a large basin for holding water. The water was still and often stagnant. Flies and small dead animals could be found in it. Each summer morning at my pool I do a "Frog patrol" rescuing frogs and others like chipmunks and mice from the pool. Sometimes it's too late for the rescue. Imagine, if you can, a large cistern with these drowned animals lying in it during warm weather.

Living waters are super abundant, inexhaustible and always pure. The Falls of En Gedi and Niagara Falls are illustrative examples of this.

For the believer the word of God is living water. It is always abundant, inexhaustible and renewing. We must drink of it to avoid our spiritual dehydration. Like physical infection, the ways of this world can infect us. We are always walking through this world and can be easily infected by it. It will be like having a fever and trying to combat this contagious infection on our own. We become stagnant and fail to reflect what Paul taught as he said, "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." (Galatians 2:20) [Emphasis is mine]. We need to show outwardly the results of our faith. "…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;" (Philippians 2:12)

Even as believers, we often thirst spiritually because we are surrounded by a world of sin. "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; " (Isaiah 55:1)

"On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.'" (John 7:37)

Jesus, being equal with God, restated the Old Testament connotation of living water when He said, "… If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." (John 4:10).

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." (John 7:38)

So let us drink in the word of God. By prayer and Bible study we can prevent this dangerous spiritual dehydration. The world's philosophy is like the broken cistern. It seems to choose evil over good and presents good as if it were evil.

The world is wrong. Do you remember when you could safely walk city streets? Do you remember morality in the old TV programs? Do you remember when kids dressed for school and there was prayer time in the schools? Magazines like Playboy were mailed in brown paper covers and yet now worse than these pictures are in the ordinary household magazine. What was once considered immoral on the beach is now commonplace even in schools and in some churches. Has the world changed society for the better? And yet there are organizations and politicians who are trying even harder to remove God from everything and call the Bible a book of hate and to legislate into acceptance that which is abominable in the eyes of God.

Get out to worship meetings! Go to Bible studies! Gather with people of faith! Pray! You need all this to prevent your spiritual dehydration. Keep away from broken cisterns. All that is in them is poison

Dennis R. Crump, Sr.
"FIRE FROM THE ROCK" (Judges 6:21)

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