🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

Lately, I feel like I’ve exhausted my own exhaustion. I am preparing to travel overseas with young children, organizing documents in two continents for visa applications, and handing over responsibilities in our very new church. My brain and body are desperately looking for signs of the “finish line”… maybe when the to-do’s are done, when we make it to the airport, get off the last plane, or finally submit that visa application. It’s like I’m a dehydrated runner, looking for the water station in a marathon.

But there’s not actually a “finish line” where needs and problems vanish in this lifetime - not when caring for a loved one with a disability, living in a broken world, or being bound to finite bodies in relationships with other finite bodies. I don’t aim to be doomy or gloomy, but to confess I’ve been looking for the wrong finish line in the wrong race. It has emptied my cup, and I’m very, very thirsty.

God speaks through His timeless Truth. “The LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your soul in scorched and dry places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.” (Isaiah 58:11 AMP)

Can there really be soulful hydration WHILE running this proverbial race? Is there more than surviving between water stations? Charles Spurgeon says, “Grace all-sufficient dwells in you, believer. There is a living well within you springing up; use the bucket, then; keep on drawing; you will never exhaust it; there is a living source within.”

There’s not a thing or person in this world that can quench our thirst. Living Water… abundant life... eternal hope bubbles limitlessly from inside of us when we’ve crowned Jesus lord of our lives. Let’s pick up our buckets today, and drink deeply. And then do it again and again.

Listen to “Living Water” by Shane and Shane.