“THERE IS NO WATER!”

 

Psalm 63:1                 (ESV)

My Soul Thirsts for You

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

    “[1] O GOD, YOU are my GOD; earnestly I seek YOU;

        my soul thirsts for YOU;

    my flesh faints for YOU,

        as in a dry and weary land where “THERE IS NO WATER”.”

Have you ever been SO THIRSTY that the ONLY way to satisfy yourself is a drink of water??  Nothing added to it!  So sweetener!  No artificial coloring!  Nothing but PURE, COOL, REFRESHING, WATER!!!

As I mature, both physically AND SPIRITUALLY, I am becoming more and more attracted to PURE WELL WATER. We are BLESSED to have well-water at our home that is EXCELLENT!  We had a friend selling water purification systems come to our house earlier in life and tried to “test” our water to see if we could benefit from a new filtration system that he was selling.  He had test tubes to analyze the water in, but our water tested perfectly and he didn’t try anything else to make the sale!

The sense of having JESUS in your life is that multiplied by infinity!!  There is NOTHING that SATISFIES like JESUS CHRIST in your life.  HE was with me when I was UNBEARABLE in my early years!  HE was with me and my friend walking the mall in August 1982.  HE was with me on February 17, 1984 when I was BLESSED in marrying a girl I met while walking the mall in August 1982.  HE was VERY MUCH with me in July 2007 when my Brain developed a near fatal leak.  HE was with me in April 2017 when I experienced a “pulled muscle” in my chest that was alleviated with QUADRUPLE BYPASS SURGERY the following week.  HE has NEVER let me down, regardless of how many times I have been moving TOO FAST to get HIS INSTRUCTIONS for the PATH HE has PLANNED for me!!!

“THERE IS NO WATER” that can satisfy you, WITHOUT JESUS in your life!  HE is the ULTIMATE SATISFACTION!  When wealth, possessions, and THINGS become more important than THE THINGS OF GOD, you can REST ASSURED that HE hasn’t left you!!  Even though I don’t treat HIM as I should, and don’t give HIM the PRAISE and ADORATION HE deserves, HE NEVER LEAVES me!!!  Even when “THERE IS NO WATER”, JESUS IS STILL THERE FOR ME!!!

“Psalm 63:1

 

“LET HIM ASK GOD!”

 

James 1:2-8                 (ESV)

Testing of Your Faith

“[2] Count it all joy, my brothers, WHEN you meet trials of various kinds, [3] for you know that the testing of your FAITH produces steadfastness. [4] And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, LACKING IN NOTHING.

[5] If any of you lacks wisdom, “LET HIM ASK GOD”, WHO gives generously to all without reproach, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO HIM. [6] But let him ask IN FAITH, WITH NO DOUBTING, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. [7] For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the LORD; [8] he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

Although I was VERY BLESSED when I survived the Brain Hemorrhage in 2007, getting back into the life “this world” had me operating in was NOT something that I felt in the least bit comfortable with!  So after I understood that knowledge, I began looking for a way to “get out” of the proverbial “rat race” and began working at a TOTALLY DIFFERENT pace.  

The feeling that I had within the first few months of being POST-STROKE was so relaxed and unencumbered!!  Just feeling FREE from the stress and anxiety that comes with fitting into the operations of “this world” is exhilarating!!  

I CHOOSE to NOT be in the mainstream, but to LIVE in HIS WAY!!  Unless we are NOT in this body, living in “this world”, we WILL BE exposed to “the enemy”, which has his name for a reason!!  HOWEVER, at least in my brain-damages mind, focusing on avoiding “the enemy” takes me away from celebrating the TREMENDOUS VICTORY that JESUS CHRIST has consistently PROVEN, just in my life alone!!

Whenever, not “in case”, “the enemy” decides to make his existence known in my life, I will remember to “LET HIM ASK GOD” to once again make satan FLEE, as is written in James 4:7!!  “The enemy” isn’t scared of me, but “LET HIM ASK GOD” and he is like a scared puppy!!!