Water

Blessed.  That is how I feel about this opportunity to spend my summer in Panajachel!  The Lord is doing awesome things in me, my teammates, and this city that were staying in.  

This theme of water is constantly being brought to my attention.  One of the first days we were here, something broke in the bathroom and water was shooting out of the wall at a rapid pace.  The room began to flood, and we all had to sweep out the crazy amount of water in the bedroom until the water was turned off.  

Our team is studying John, and in John Jesus talks a lot about “Everyone who drinks the water I give him will never be thirst.  The water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  -John 4:14.  

For the past two weeks we have been building/finishing a well.  Everyday I have sat in the well, that will soon hold water for many villagers, and pour dirt around the sides to make the well sturdy. 

Everyday around 3 pm it rains, and when I say rain, I mean pours!

Recently at our house we had no water.  We could not shower for a little while, and had limitations to the amount of water we could use. 

The song rain down seems to be playing every time I go into church or listen to someones ipod.  

So…water?  This theme of water, what is God trying to teach me?  I was praying about this and the Lord led me to this verse.

“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.  By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.”  – John 7:38-39.

Maybe the Lord is trying to teach me about his Spirit, that His Spirit is like water.  Water flows, covers, cleanses, quenches thirst.  Maybe, just maybe, the Lord wants HIs Spirit to rain down on me, on our team.  I think God wants us to actively pursue more of His Spirit.  We have His Spirit inside of us, so lets use it!  Lets use it to point others to Him, to show them that if they drink from Him, they will never be thirsty again!  That His Spirit can cleanse them from all wrong, that they never have to go back, never have to be the same.  Lets allow ourselves to be open to what His Spirit has for us, how He wants us to move.

Lets allow for it to rain down!