Today’s Lectionary Readings: Psalm 18:1-50; Isaiah 41:14-20; John 4:7-15; Revelation 1:1-8
One of my least favorite aspects of working out is the constant cotton mouth or dry mouth you deal with during your workout. If you’re anything like me, every few minutes you feel compelled to run across the gym and hit the water fountain. This compulsion is what motivates many of us to bring our own water bottles to the gym with us to prevent those trips across the gym. In many ways, there’s a similar dynamic at work in our lives. Given the strenuous demands and duties in our lives, we get overextended and find ourselves needing to return to our source of temporary refreshment so that we can get through the routine of our day. What if I were to tell you there is a source of refreshment that would constantly stay with you and keep you refreshed –a source that – like your trusted water bottle in the gym – would be with you constantly? Actually, I wouldn’t need to tell you about the source of refreshment and renewal myself – for the author of John’s Gospel beat me to the punch and tells us all of such a source. In John 4:13-14 (NIV), Jesus tells the Samaritan woman (and those of us looking for a constant source of refreshment and renewal) the following words: “Everyone who drinks this [ordinary] water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him [or her] will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him [or her] will become in him [or her] a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Today I ask you to consider your source of refreshment and renewal. Are you quenching your thirst using ordinary water or are you seeking refreshment from a deeper, more lasting source. A source that – like your trusty gym water bottle – is with you always? May your thirst remained quenched this day and always. Til next time…
One of my least favorite aspects of working out is the constant cotton mouth or dry mouth you deal with during your workout. If you’re anything like me, every few minutes you feel compelled to run across the gym and hit the water fountain. This compulsion is what motivates many of us to bring our own water bottles to the gym with us to prevent those trips across the gym. In many ways, there’s a similar dynamic at work in our lives. Given the strenuous demands and duties in our lives, we get overextended and find ourselves needing to return to our source of temporary refreshment so that we can get through the routine of our day. What if I were to tell you there is a source of refreshment that would constantly stay with you and keep you refreshed –a source that – like your trusted water bottle in the gym – would be with you constantly? Actually, I wouldn’t need to tell you about the source of refreshment and renewal myself – for the author of John’s Gospel beat me to the punch and tells us all of such a source. In John 4:13-14 (NIV), Jesus tells the Samaritan woman (and those of us looking for a constant source of refreshment and renewal) the following words: “Everyone who drinks this [ordinary] water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him [or her] will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him [or her] will become in him [or her] a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Today I ask you to consider your source of refreshment and renewal. Are you quenching your thirst using ordinary water or are you seeking refreshment from a deeper, more lasting source. A source that – like your trusty gym water bottle – is with you always? May your thirst remained quenched this day and always. Til next time…
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