Living Water

I am a water snob. When I was a kid, we lived in the Rocky Mountains in New Mexico where the water came out of the tap sweet and cold. After becoming accustomed to such refreshing water, I began to notice the different flavors in tap water. When I was in junior high, we moved to the Pecos River valley where the water that came out of the tap was neither sweet nor cold. So we began to buy filtered water from the vending machines in that area.

Fast forward fifteen years. I am attending the TGC 2014 Women's conference in Orlando. I understand the necessity of staying hydrated, so I have been drinking the water from the tap even though, in my opinion, the flavor leaves something to be desired. But this morning, during a break, I filled my bottle from one of the water fountains. It. Was. GLORIOUS!!! When you are used to drinking lots of water, your body really FEELS when it's missing.

This weekend I have been convicted anew of my lack of belief. I say that I believe that Christ is my greatest need. And on some level (maybe many levels) I DO believe that. But actions speak louder than words, and when I choose to spend my time on something other than God's Word, instead of God's Word, I am proving, in that moment, that I don't BELIEVE that Christ is REALLY my greatest need! I wander through this dry and weary land drinking things that aren't water!

Lord Jesus,
Forgive me for clinging to things that cannot satisfy, for elevating good gifts to god status in my heart, for not treasuring you and worshiping you as you deserve. Thank you that Christ did it all in my place, and that in Him, you are pleased with me! Fill my soul with living water that wells up to eternal life for your glory! Amen.

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 4:5-14