Remember Your Water!
As the New Year approached I
gave a lot of thought to what my New Year’s resolution should be. Most of the
time my resolutions have to do with dieting and eating better and walking more,
and I am usually good for a couple of months and then well…
As I was reading my Facebook
feed one morning a friend of mine had posted to see what everyone else’s
resolutions were going to be. She ended up deciding to drink more water. It was
something she needed to do and it would be an easy resolution to keep. A light
went on in my head. How fabulously brilliant, simple, easy, and good this
resolution was! According to WEBMD.com drinking adequate amounts of water
balances bodily fluids, controls calories, energizes muscles, helps reduce
stress, keeps skin looking good, helps filter the blood stream of toxins and
helps solid waste to move on out of your body.
I never knew New Year’s
resolutions could be so easy. I thought I just might have to decide this would
be my New Year’s resolution as well!
As I contemplated this
resolution over the next couple of days all I could think about was the Living
Water/the Water of Life. I thought about the river flowing from the temple in
Ezekiel’s vision, the waters flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb in Revelation.
I though about Jesus and the Samaritan Woman and how he told her whoever drank
from the Water He had to give would never thirst again! Yet the one reference
which stayed foremost on my mind was of Jesus crying out in the temple on the
last day of the Feast of Tabernacles.
37 On the last and greatest day of the
festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is
thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever
believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living
water will flow from within them.”[c] 39 By this
he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive John
7:37-39 (NIV)
If I partake of the Holy
Spirit…the Living Water…He filters out those things which are spiritually toxic
like those found in Galatians 5:19-21 It is obvious what kind of life develops out
of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a
stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless
grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness;
cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal
temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives;
small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing
everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly
parodies of community. I could go on. (MSG)
As we allow Him to filter the
poison instead of spewing toxins on others out of our lives will flow good
things like the list from Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control. Against such things there is no law.
As I was contemplating all of
these things Graham Cooke posted this on his Facebook and summed my need for
the Holy Spirit up this way "Your
language has to be in alignment with Heaven. The first thing we teach in Prophecy School
Not that I feel that I have
the gift of prophesy, but what I am called to do is to speak words of life into
people. I will hinder myself from doing this I don’t start filtering the toxins
out of my spirit. Direct evidence that I have slacked off in this area is that I
have not keep as tight of a rein on my mouth as I should be for the past two
months and guess what?! This seemingly harmless, yet conscious, lack of control
has had an effect. I’ve spewed toxins not only about, but on people. I need to
sit at the source and drink. Times of refreshing…
So here’s my New Year’s
Resolution: Remember My Water…both physical and spiritual.
For some reason today I couldn't upload any videos but here is a link to a great song!
