The Sunday before we left for California we discovered that our kitchen faucet had broken and flooded the cabinet underneath, creating a lot of water damage and some mold. We shut off all the water, had a mitigation specialist give us an estimate for repairs, told our insurance company what happened and that we would get in touch with them when we returned from California. Since then we have been dealing with our local agent, the mitigation company, the insurance adjusters and the reconstruction company. We also haven’t had any water in our kitchen.
Our hall bathroom is now our go-to-temporary kitchen. The kitchen is still waterless, and now the hall bathroom is no longer used as such. It’s been a bit frustrating. But each time I leave the kitchen to go fetch water from the bathroom, I am reminded it is only a short distance, a few steps, and that there are many places around our world where clean water is miles away, if available at all.
How precious water is to life. Physical life cannot continue without it. We may be able to go weeks, or even months, without food, but water must be obtained or we will die in days.
Our spirits also need water. Unfortunately, too often we seek out water that will not sustain us. God told Jeremiah, “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” [Jer 2:13 NIV]
Broken cisterns are what the world offers us. True Living Water that will sustain our spiritual life can only be found in the Lord. Jesus said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.” [John 7:37-38 NIV]
LORD, flood my soul with the Living Water that only You can supply. Amen!
