Lately i have been dealing with my call towards serving God's people in Africa. Those people fill the visions of my mind in the late hours of the night, desperate prayers leave my lips for their single need of knowing Jesus Christ as their Savior, mighty works have been done in my heart to prepare me for the life ahead in this land i do not know. Im leaving my comfort zone here in America to pursue this dream, no, not just a dream, but an undeniable call from heaven itself. I desire with every fiber of my being to be used as a tool solely for the purpose of loving people who no one takes the time of day to care about. To fight for the heart of the king where no one else will go.
However it just makes me wonder though, Why doesnt America, a "Christian" nation, focus on such a call as a whole? Do you realize how much this nation could accomplish if we loosed the grip of our greedy hands and freely poured our resources out on the hurting people of this Earth? Which brings me even further in, Why is breaking God's heart so easy? When Jesus said care for the least of these and it will be as if we were doing it unto him , do you think there was sarcasm in his eyes? Can you imagine sitting at the feet of Jesus and him saying "Give your Costco 35 pack of water to that lady over there, her children are about to die of thirst" and without even a thought of that woman or her children you say 'Well Jesus, im going on a run later, i need to stay hydrated". Its inconcievable. Jesus also talked about water with the Samaritan woman : "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water i give him will never thirst" (John 4:13-14) I cant help but think that we are all drinking dirty water, that although America has the most purified and safe drinking water in the entire world we are poisoning ourselves with polluted "spiritual" water. We dump our greed, lust, gossip, lies, selfish ambition and hatred into the once pure spring that God created and then we curse him for us being spiritually "dry". Would you feel "refreshed" if you scooped up a cup of the water that runs through the streams of Africa and drankn it? The disease ridden, brown, human waste infested water that those people drink from every single day and ultimatley end up dying from. Can you imagine THAT being your only source of hydration? Furthermore,without God's water and the concecration of our lives to him, we will die from "spiritual" dehydration ourselves.
In an odd way, i envy those people dying from dirty water, its a far less price to pay than to die from spiritual thirst because its temporary. The things that we let get into our faith sustaining water now effects our entire eternity. As insanely crazy as it sounds, i would rather go through an entire lifetime on earth suffering and dying of physical thirst then get to heaven and find out I didnt let God truely hydrate me or rather i tainted his life giving gift. So to end this ode to God and his constant provision of water that sustains my life; mind the gap. Be aware that with spiritual hydration comes great sacrifice on our part and a giant leap onto a fast moving train away from the world and its pleasure. Count the cost of temporary dehydration from "earthly" water and the things we "thirst"after in our flesh. But know that you can drink deeply of the purifying and mercy filled waters of our Daddy. It's a smal price to compare to the river we have heir to in heaven where all blessings and glory and honor flow, forever and ever and ever and ever. You thirsty yet?
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