The Desert

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 323

March 28, 2017

Imagine yourself in a desert.  It is dusty and hot, the sun is beating down and the longer you are there the weaker you become as you drag yourself forward.  You are looking for water: water to quench your thirst and revive your body so that you can continue out of this hot dry desert.

Then you see it: a body of water straight ahead and you plunge forward only to find it is a mirage.  A mirage is something that appears real but according to the dictionary is ……….

an optical effect that is sometimes seen at sea, in the desert, or over a hot pavement, that may have the appearance of a pool of water or a mirror.

Imagine your feelings of disappointment as you realize that there is no water, no cool stream.

May I tell you this morning that trying to find true happiness and satisfaction in anything is this world other than a relationship to Jesus Christ is a mirage.

You may find great hope as you run toward that goal or that rung on the success ladder or that person or that job or that house or anything else you may desire. But when you get there you find it is a mirage.

There is no true joy or contentment apart from honoring God and walking in a real vital relationship with His Son Jesus Christ.

Let’s go back to our desert experience and imagine we see a body of water and when we reach it we find real refreshment as we drink deeply, pour some on our head and maybe sit down right it the middle of it and bask in the feel of it.

This is a picture of what accepting Jesus as Lord and building a relationship to Him is like.  It is a true refreshing, life giving, and Spirit Alive walk.

John 4:14 (KJV)
¹⁴ But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

John 7:38 (KJV)
³⁸ He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Your are created for fellowship with the creator God through what Jesus did on the Cross.  When we realize that true life is found only in Him and we decide that He is the way the truth and the life we can find the real water: the real stream of life and we can know true Joy and Peace.

Revelation 21:6 (KJV)
⁶ And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:17 (KJV)
¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

The choice is ours.  We can keep reaching toward the mirages that the world places in front of us or we can decide to come to the real life giving water and live….truly live.  We are not created to exist. We are created to live and fulfill the amazing destiny God has for us.

Drink from the fountain of life!!!!

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Father, in Jesus name I come and thank you for the life giving water that flows freely through those who will receive it and live. Bless each one who reads this with the desire for all you have for them.  Amen

Come to the life giving water and be refreshed.

Love, MeMaw