Thirsting for Mountain lakes

Have you ever been thirsty, I mean really, really thirsty?

I don't back pack a lot. I have a back pack in my closet and I don't think that I have done a serious trip sense I bought the back pack in my closet. But I have memories of great back packing trips. What I remember most about them is the desperation for the lake at the end. I really don't like to back pack if there isn't going to be a lake at the end of the hike. I love water, I feel like the most alive times of my life have been on or in the water. So if I am going to do something like back packing, requiring great amount of effort, I really want the goal to include some water! And the truth is by the time I get there I feel like my whole body is thirsty. Have you felt this? Do you know what I mean? Its not just a parched dryness in my throat its my whole being crying out to jump in that lake! The water just beacons to me, here I am cool and refreshing ready to restore you and give you life.

Genesis 26 is all about wells. It really is. Every place that Isaac is forced to move (because he has followed in his Father's footsteps and lied about his wife being his sister, until they get caught making out by the king) the new settlement is around a well. he opens up wells Abraham dug and the philistines filled in. His people and the other people quarrel about new wells he digs and finally he digs wells that he is able to use and live from. He names each of the wells depending on what happens around them. I particularly like the one that he names "room" because their is no quarreling over this one and his people have room to live there.

Life really has been centered around water for a long, long time. Whenever there is a new settlement, town, or even a successful homestead they are build with water very close by if not in the town itself. We cannot live without water. Some crazy amount of our bodies are made up of water. So it makes sense to me the way my whole body seems to thirst for water at the end of the back packing hike for the day.

Jesus says to the Samaritan woman that he meets at the well. "I am the living water, whoever comes to me will thirst no more." Jesus is claiming to be the source of spiritual life. He is the one that our souls are thirsting for. Have you ever felt the thirst of your soul, when you seem to be parched inside you have nothing left to give making it through the next day just seems impossible? Jesus is the water that can quench your soul. He is the room in which I need to live.

When all the business of life comes down on me, all the concerns of the things I must get done. The things I must do if I don't want to fail. I am encouraged to find room to rest and to live in Christ. To stop and slow down the pace realizing the most important things will be carried on.

Are you parched in life today, do you need room to live? I would suggest sitting down long enough to take a deep drink from the well of life. Spend some time soaking up God. Really read his word, soak it in, really breathe in the Holy Spirit in prayer. Drink from the well that will satisfy. Drink in Jesus. If you haven't before then just give it a try today.