Empty Tasks

That's Exodus on our big screen at St Mark's ... today our tanks were overflowing with happiness. 


27 August 2010

John 4:10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Yesterday I went up to Linga Longa on a short visit in preparation for our trip to Margate. I arrived with the two dogs and settled them back into the home, and then wanted to give them fresh water in their bowl. I tried to open the tap, and no luck the tap head seamed to be jammed. I went and used a spanner and still the tap head would not move, so using the spanner I opened the tap head thinking that the spindle was stuck. Expecting water to flow out the open, headless tap, still no water, I then realised that there was no water; the supply tank had run dry. After putting everything back and filing the tank from the borehole there was plenty of water.

I suppose we all have days when we think we should have water in our pipes, but we don’t it is almost as if our reservoirs are empty. We then take things apart, we check for all kinds of things, and only later realise that our tanks are dry. We need to be in the supply line to be supplied, and when we are not we run dry and eventually we have nothing left to give. In the same way we need to be connected to the Holy Spirit, to be in the constant supply from the tanks that never run dry. We do this by making sure that always have a ready supply, the more we use, the more we get. So we use love, we get love, we use peace, we get peace, we bring joy, we get joy. I hope you have got it!

Be encouraged today to remain connected to the Holy Spirit.

David

Point to ponder: Jesus is the everlasting waters of life.

Question to consider: Are you running dry?

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NOTE: David will be taking a break until 6 September. We look forward to his return.