“,,,but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:14 NIV.
A few more thoughts about water made their way into my upper processor after yesterday. The quality and quantity of water in Haiti is some of the poorest in the world according to a recent article in the National Geographic. It is no wonder why a river or canal near a Haitian village is such a public meeting place. As seen in the attached photo near Gonaives, people bathe, do their laundry, gather water for drinking and cooking and also water their goats, pigs and cattle in the same area.
Jesus Christ is the Living Water and that is something that all of us need to survive. A lack of living water can cause symptoms of “spiritual deadness.” If you’re feeling spiritually dead, God offers hope to restore your supply channels to his living water. Our spirits are like streams branching off God’s river. His river keeps life flowing through our spiritual veins and washes away impurities. His water satisfies each of us in a special way. Drinking the living water brings contentment; it nourishes and heals us, enabling us to be fruitful for God and it in turn causes new springs of living water to well up in us, flowing into the lives of people around us.
“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38 NKJV. How many of the people in this canal know about living water? How many are still caught in the lies of the local vodou priest and caught in the drought of satan? Thank you for supporting Christian education in the Gonaives area, for supplying the young missionaries attending school there with a noon meal that will provide them with physical strength as they share their river of life with the lost in Haiti.
Dear Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you,
Jay