Can you be allergic to water? Well, I guess you wouldn't be alive then. (Can dead people be allergic?) In fact if you really are alive you not only don't have any aversions to water but an actual craving for it. This is especially pronounced when there is a lack of it in your body. Water. So underappreciated but so vital.
Water. Without it there is death. With it there is life. So simple yet so profound. I can remember playing beach volleyball on the Central Coast in a tournament and my partner and I had been playing for almost 4 hours and I was the thirstiest I had ever been. Although I was drinking fluids, I couldn't get enough and during the last match I started to tingle all over and some of my muscles began to convulse and my mouth was like someone had stuffed cotton in it. We ended up winning but for more than a day I had no energy and drank like a fish until I wasn't nauseous anymore. (do fish really drink?)
This is similar to God. We as humans are spiritual creatures. We desire spiritual connection more than water some times. Peop People can attempt to fill it with athletics, relationships, drugs, sexual conquest, scientific ponderings or whathaveyou but it never really satisfies. Jesus said "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." (John 7:37, 38) Jesus claimed to be the 'living water' and that whoever drank from Him would never thirst again in a spiritual sense. Can you say you don't spiritually thirst anymore? Are all your needs and desires for divine connection satisfied. Without Christ they will not be....they cannot be for He is God. How good it is to drink true, pure, unadulterated water....free and freely.
Drink deeply my friend. Drink deeply from Jesus in His word the Bible. Find the nourishment for your soul that you crave.
Bottoms up!
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