Yesterday I went to the gym to fit in a quick workout. I planned on spending just 30 minutes on a cardio machine. I forgot to grab myself a water bottle this time and of course only took my membership card in with me. I passed a water fountain outside the locker rooms and thought, oh it's only 30 minutes. I will be fine. I walked up the stairs and climbed onto my machine. I started it like normal and after about 2 minutes my body temperature started to rise and I really wished I had brought my water bottle. "How nice it would have been to have a sip of cool fresh water," I thought. A few minutes later I found myself starting to sweat. Then, I realized I was fixated on the water fountain across the room. I watched sweaty person after sweaty person lean over and take a drink. I remembered the scene in Three Amigos where one man had his full canteen and was wasting it while the other two were dying of thirst!!!
I was feeling pretty silly at this point. I could pause my machine and walk over the the source of water and put myself out of my misery.....but I only had a few minutes left. So, I stayed put wishing I was being refreshed like everyone else. Whining that I should have remembered my own bottle of water. Beating myself up for not being more prepared with quarters in my gym bag for a vending machine. After my workout was over I rushed over to the water fountain and drank like a camel!!! (A camel can drink up to 32 gallons at a time and go without drinking for 1-2 weeks!!!)
Later I was reflecting on that and I started to wonder....how many of us think we are camels? How many times do we try to drink in excess hoping it will sustain us for a long time? I am of course speaking spiritually here. I also wondered how many of us are so focused on the our work (or workout) that we don't stop and go to the fountain of Living Water. Maybe we aren't prepared with our bottle full before we set out or are fixated on everyone elses???
Whatever the reason for our severe thirst, the answer is to seek God, and He will satisfy it.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Matthew 5:6
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
'Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things.' Psalm 107:8-9
'As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?' Psalm 42:1-2
'You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land where there is no water.' Psalm 63:1
'Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;' Isaiah 55:1a
'The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.' Revelation 22:17
