Thirsty for pure water.

The water that I drank while at school was the kind that people would joke about chewing instead of drinking. It was so full of minerals and other stuff that it tasted like everything but water...salty, chlorinated and filled with enough other stuff to boost the level my immune system was working at.



So now that I am back home the water that comes out of my hose tends to be more thirst quenching and pleasing than the water from school...never mind the deliciousness that comes from the tap or the fridge. But what was interesting to me was how anyone that grew up in the mid-west was so used to the "heavy water" that they liked it and thought that it was just the way water tasted. My point in all of this is to point out how my relationship with Christ and what I think is true for many Christ followers is the ignorance that they fully know what living water tastes like. Habitual sin, sin that we are addicted to, sin that is so deeply rooted in our lives it has become common and behavior that is unrepentant...these are the things that make the water heavy. So while we pledge allegiance to Jesus Christ and we have an idea of what living water tastes like, we do not fully understand what pure and holy and righteous, thirst quenching, delicious water really tastes like because of the habitually sin in our lives that is tainting the water. And like my mid-west friends assume, we assume that is what living water is like.

True living water leaves us to never thirst again. It gives us life!(duh) But it is not until we completely hand over our arrogance and pride to Christ that He may have complete control, do we become aware of how the water can be purified as Christ purifies our lives. That we can be made holy and righteous before God by His cleansing.

I am starting to taste purer water these days, and I am become more aware of the voice of the Holy Spirit. My spirit is being more noticeably concerned with the Holy Spirit is leading me to. It is that kind of light bulb moment that now I am aware, but along with this awareness comes the guilt of know what I have been ignorant to...my awareness has peaked at this realization of how wrong I have been to think I was on track, and to be cleansed is humbling to notice how detrimental the sin has been and yet thinking all the while that a severe problem did not even exist.

So how does your water taste?

Proverbs 3

My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;
2 For length of days and years of life
And peace they will add to you.
3 Do not let kindness and truth leave you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 So you will find favor and good repute
In the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
8 It will be healing to your body
And refreshment to your bones.
9 Honor the LORD from your wealth
And from the first of all your produce;
10 So your barns will be filled with plenty
And your vats will overflow with new wine.
11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD
Or loathe His reproof,
12 For whom the LORD loves He reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
13 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom
And the man who gains understanding.
14 For her profit is better than the profit of silver
And her gain better than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than jewels;
And nothing you desire compares with her.
16 Long life is in her right hand;
In her left hand are riches and honor.
17 Her ways are pleasant ways
And all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her,
And happy are all who hold her fast.
19 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth,
By understanding He established the heavens.
20 By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the skies drip with dew.
21 My son, let them not vanish from your sight;
Keep sound wisdom and discretion,
22 So they will be life to your soul
And adornment to your neck.
23 Then you will walk in your way securely
And your foot will not stumble.
24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid;
When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
25 Do not be afraid of sudden fear
Nor of the onslaught of the wicked when it comes;
26 For the LORD will be your confidence
And will keep your foot from being caught.
27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
When it is in your power to do it.
28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back,
And tomorrow I will give it,”
When you have it with you.
29 Do not devise harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.
30 Do not contend with a man without cause,
If he has done you no harm.
31 Do not envy a man of violence
And do not choose any of his ways.
32 For the devious are an abomination to the LORD;
But He is intimate with the upright.
33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked,
But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
34 Though He scoffs at the scoffers,
Yet He gives grace to the afflicted.
35 The wise will inherit honor,
But fools display dishonor.


I thought this was appropriate for the state of our union these days. Maybe we need to be more closely trusting in what God's Word is telling us. Or do we not trust Him?

Did it ever occur to you that when you look into the mirror, it is not as you truly to others but the exact opposite? So that my perception of my physical self is backwards; that eye that is closed a little more than the other, the direction of the part in my hair and the way it lies, which side of my mouth curls up more when I smile and which ear has that little freckle that looks like a piercing.

Or I could assume that everyone else has a backwards perception to who and what I truly am. I have thought often that nobody really understands who I am, the good and the bad, for they know not my thoughts. Believe me, my blog posts do not scratch the surface of the deep wonder of my mind.

"True genius does not feel the need to pompously reveal itself, but rather is content with the knowledge of how it is transforming the world in which it dwells."

That was an original proverb by me. Crap. I just demolished the mystery of my genius and have lost it in doing so, if I were to believe in the proverb I just created. I should create a pen name to disguise my intellect once more.

O, the deep deep love of Jesus

1. O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me,
Is the current of Thy love
Leading onward, leading homeward
To Thy glorious rest above!

2. O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth,
Changeth never, nevermore!
How He watches o’er His loved ones,
Died to call them all His own;
How for them He intercedeth,
Watcheth o’er them from the throne!

3. O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Love of every love the best!
’Tis an ocean vast of blessing,
’Tis a haven sweet of rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
’Tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory,
For it lifts me up to Thee!