Water For Worship!
"O God, You are my God; early will I seek You;
my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in
a dry and thirsty land where there is no water."
Psalm 63:1
In his book Timeless Healing, Harvard medical professor,
Dr. Herbert Benson, recalls seeing the movie Lawrence of
Arabia
in theatre in 1962, a film set in the scorching deserts of the Middle
East during World War I. Because the original film was nearly four
hours long, there was the intermission halfway through it. Benson
recounts how, at the intermission,
moviegoers descended on the
concession stand for cold drinks after
watching nearly two hours
of heat, sand, and wind!
The moviegoers weren’t dying of thirst, but they felt like it.
Such is our experience when we go through difficult times.
We can feel like the psalmist, parched in a dry and
thirsty
land where there is no water. But there's a spiritual water
available through the Spirit as Christ announced at the
Feast of Tabernacles (John 7:37-39). A thirst is
quenched
when we worship the One who sent His Spirit to meet our
every need: “Thus I will bless You while I live” (Psalm 63:4).
Are you in a dry and barren place today?
Drink deeply of the Spirit and be refreshed
through worship.
"Worry and worship are mutually exclusive."
John Blanchard
