Recently I have redoubled my efforts to drink lots of water. I have also decided to drink less of those things that provide an inordinate amount of sugar and caffeine. The result has been noticeable. I felt like it was a God assignment for the maintaining of my health, so I have been doing it. In the meantime all kinds of articles and facts have been called to our attention about the value of drinking water in abundance. One of them has to do with the quantity of water each day. Come to find out, if we take our body weight, divide it in half, the resulting number is the number of ounces that is to be our daily average portion. For most of us, that is way more water than we have even thought of drinking. We have not been drinking enough water to maintain and provide for bodily functions. Seeing that about 90% of our body is water, it makes since to provide enough for good health. Things like our joint lubrication, digestive health, blood pressure, fat levels, our flush systems and many other such things are all helped by drinking enough water.

We also have a pond in our back yard that is a closed system. Except for rain, it only has the water in it that we put in. Last year I lost some fish because the pond turned into a black water swamp from all the debris that piled up in it during a time when I could not replenish the water. In order to maintain a simple pond, I am required to flush it out, clean it out, and replenish the water at least twice a month. That is a lot of work.

This is not a health lesson or a lesson in pond maintenance. There are valuable and life giving lessons found here. When we accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior, we are blessed with a spiritual life and relationship with our Heavenly Father which requires spiritual water to prosper. The Bible is full of references to this spiritual water and the need for it. Here are a couple of them.

John 4:13-14
“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Ephesians 5:25-27
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

These two passages reveal that the Holy Spirit and the Word of God are like water to our spiritual life and souls. As in the natural, so in the spiritual. Partaking of these waters abundantly provide for a healthy and abundant life in Christ. Thinking about drinking water in the natural, I am left wondering if many of the ongoing sin problems and developed attitudes that are often resident in the lives of believers are not the result of drinking far to little water (the Word and the Spirit). God's provision is abundant, so there is to be no lack in our lives if we partake of the abundance He has made available to us. We have only to go to the source, turn on the tap, open up the Book, and let the Holy Spirit move liberally in our lives, so that we may prosper in our souls and in all that we do with our lives.

Isaiah 58:11
The LORD will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.