Water! What is it good for?

It seems like water is on a lot of people’s radar these days.

I have become a lot more conscientious about water now that we are in a serious drought.  I shower less, wash dishes

faster and have given up brushing my teeth!  Don’t believe the last one.  My hygienist would kill me and my wife would never kiss me.

My neighbor reminded me as we discussed the idea of water, that the western mind set is that water is a commodity.  For many non-western people groups, water was viewed as a sacred gift.  People did not take water from other people in order to gain economic advantage.  Many of us would not be here in Southern California if water wasn’t taken from other people and other places to make this area thrive.

My issue in this blog is not political or economic.  It is to reflect on water as a sacrament of God’s Spirit in the world.

We use water to quench our thirst, clean ourselves and our environment and to grow our crops and plants in our yards. As a Christian community we continue the act of water baptism as the sign of initiation into the body of Christ.  Jesus, in John 7:37&38, likens the Holy Spirit to water that springs up within us as we unite ourselves to him in faith.

If you want to be blessed, take some time and go throughout the Bible and trace the theme of water.  If you think our water crisis is bad, I have news for you!  In our secular culture, we have a much greater crisis of the Spirit!

With the rejection of God and the propositional truths of the Bible, our culture is left with a spiritual desert of lost souls.  What our culture needs are more spiritual oasis’ of God’s Spirit.  This is the role of the local Christian community.  We need to pray that God raises up people who will pray for showers of the Spirit to flow into his people.  It is all about the Spirit and the Word.

This past weekend we received unexpected showers throughout the southland.  Let us pray for “expected” showers of the Spirit to water our souls and draw the thirsty to Jesus.

Keep praying!

Love, Fred.

 

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