Water on My Mind
I had water on my mind last night.
We had a little kitchen accident that required some extra clean-up, extra clean-up made extra-stressful because we continue under a boil order. The clean up we needed to do involved food, and our good supply of boiled water didn’t quite cover that unexpected need. We managed, though, and all was well.
On Monday, April 5, our local water utility district is to pull water samples and send them off to see if our water is clean again after the flooding and water main breaks over the weekend. The results are to take another 24 hours. Meanwhile, we are to boil our water for drinking, cooking, brushing our teeth, and washing dishes. A couple of days ago, I expressed empathy for our daughter since she has to boil water for her whole family. She assured me that she was fine. She was thinking about the millions for whom hauling and boiling water is everyday life.
She is right. We are very blessed. After all, the water boiling at our house is water that comes out of a very convenient faucet.
Jesus spoke one of His many beautiful promises to a woman who was hauling water. He was tired and sitting by Jacob’s well when He asked her for water and they began a conversation. The woman was concerned about the kind of water that she got from a well, but Jesus told her about a water that would do her far more good than that well water ever could.
On our joyous days, on our weary days and forever, He provides us with a fountain.
Jesus answered and said to her,
“Everyone who drinks of this water
will be thirsty again;
but whoever drinks of the water
that I will give him shall never be thirsty;
but the water that I will give him
will become in him a fountain of water
springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:13-14