EVERYTIME IF GO TO MY DOCTOR about some health issue, he always seems to mention the importance of drinking enough water. I concluded that perhaps I should do a little research on the subject.
Did you know that water is considered an essential nutrient because it must be consumed from exogenous sources to satisfy metabolic demand? Water constitutes approximately 60% of adult body weight. The body needs about 3 quarts of water a day to operate efficiently. It helps break up and soften food. The blood, which is 90 percent H2O carries nutrients to the cells. As a cooling agent, water regulates our temperature through perspiration. And without its lubricating properties, our joints and muscles would grind and creak like unused parts of some old rusty machinery.
The famous Lawrence of Arabia once visited London and brought along some of his desert-dwelling friends. These men were impressed by the bustling city and its modern conveniences. They were impressed most by the water faucets—all one had to do to obtain fresh water was turn a handle! The naïve visitors asked Lawrence an interesting (and silly) question: Would it be possible, they wondered, to take some of these water faucets back to the desert?…
Misguided? Of course. Yet, when people who are spiritually dead attempt to find joy and fulfillment in material pursuits, pleasure-filled living, or worldly success, they are doing the same thing: They are attempting to turn on a "water tap" to bring forth joy, when in reality there is no source of water to tap into. True joy and fulfillment are possible only after grounding one's life in the source of Living Water.
A father took his son downtown to play in one of the city's massive fountains. As the five-year-old played in the thirty or so jets of water shooting up from the courtyard, the father looked around and noticed all the different kinds of people who were doing the same thing. There were small children like his own son who were splashing about in the water. There were downtown office workers who were coming to cool their feet on their lunch hour. There were sophisticated vacationers speaking foreign tongues. There were people who looked to be homeless. There were others whose identity couldn't quite be ascertained. Yet they were all united in the water. A mysterious kinship formed among them as they tarried in the fountain's jets. Then, after they left the water, they all returned to their respective 'worlds,' perhaps never to cross paths with one another again.
Our standing with Christ is like that. As long as we're actively drinking from the 'Living Water,' through regular communion with Him, we will feel a kinship with our fellow men and women in this world-- a kinship that enables us to fellowship with them, minister to them, befriend them. However, if we withdraw ourselves from regular fellowship with Christ and stop drinking from His Living Water, we will lose our connection with other people. We will once again see people through human eyes, rather than seeing them as God Himself sees them.
Did you know that water is considered an essential nutrient because it must be consumed from exogenous sources to satisfy metabolic demand? Water constitutes approximately 60% of adult body weight. The body needs about 3 quarts of water a day to operate efficiently. It helps break up and soften food. The blood, which is 90 percent H2O carries nutrients to the cells. As a cooling agent, water regulates our temperature through perspiration. And without its lubricating properties, our joints and muscles would grind and creak like unused parts of some old rusty machinery.
The famous Lawrence of Arabia once visited London and brought along some of his desert-dwelling friends. These men were impressed by the bustling city and its modern conveniences. They were impressed most by the water faucets—all one had to do to obtain fresh water was turn a handle! The naïve visitors asked Lawrence an interesting (and silly) question: Would it be possible, they wondered, to take some of these water faucets back to the desert?…
Misguided? Of course. Yet, when people who are spiritually dead attempt to find joy and fulfillment in material pursuits, pleasure-filled living, or worldly success, they are doing the same thing: They are attempting to turn on a "water tap" to bring forth joy, when in reality there is no source of water to tap into. True joy and fulfillment are possible only after grounding one's life in the source of Living Water.
A father took his son downtown to play in one of the city's massive fountains. As the five-year-old played in the thirty or so jets of water shooting up from the courtyard, the father looked around and noticed all the different kinds of people who were doing the same thing. There were small children like his own son who were splashing about in the water. There were downtown office workers who were coming to cool their feet on their lunch hour. There were sophisticated vacationers speaking foreign tongues. There were people who looked to be homeless. There were others whose identity couldn't quite be ascertained. Yet they were all united in the water. A mysterious kinship formed among them as they tarried in the fountain's jets. Then, after they left the water, they all returned to their respective 'worlds,' perhaps never to cross paths with one another again.
Our standing with Christ is like that. As long as we're actively drinking from the 'Living Water,' through regular communion with Him, we will feel a kinship with our fellow men and women in this world-- a kinship that enables us to fellowship with them, minister to them, befriend them. However, if we withdraw ourselves from regular fellowship with Christ and stop drinking from His Living Water, we will lose our connection with other people. We will once again see people through human eyes, rather than seeing them as God Himself sees them.
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