If I were to define “water bottle,” you might say that it is a bottle with water in it! You also might say that it is a square, red rubber bottle one could fill with hot water to warm a cold bed or ease pain in an aching back! The way you would define that term would probably depend on your age! (I am old enough to view it as a red rubber bottle!) However, today, people carry water bottles with them lots of the time. We hear so much these days about the necessity to stay “hydrated” or, in the negative context, to keep from becoming dehydrated. Dehydration can actually become fatal!
Today, it is actually recommended by the Kansas High School Athletic Association that students participating in Fall sports be allowed water breaks every 15 minutes or so (recent volleyball lecture from KSHSAA). Why is that so important? Our bodies are filled with water. In fact, according to Nestle Waters, the average human body is 60% water! That is a lot of water! Now, by now you are probably wondering where this is going, but there is a point! In Jeremiah 2: 4-13 (the Lectionary Old Testament text for this week) we read some interesting charges against the nation of Israel. Through the prophet Jeremiah, God asks a hard question in verse 5: “What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far away from me?” Could God be asking that very same question of us today? In the end of this passage God says that the people have committed two evils. First they have forsaken God. How many times today do we hear that we are NOT a Christian nation? How many times does freedom of religion become confused with freedom FROM religion? It seems to me that more and more even our courts will always rule against Christianity. The second evil is that the people have “dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.” There is the connection to the water bottle! Today, do we hold the spiritual water that is spoken of often in the scriptures or do we need a little “spiritual re-hydration?” I think I know the answer to that question and I bet you do too! I would encourage you to seek out that spiritual re-hydration before it is too late! Amen. 9/4/2016 10:41:19 pm
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