Bible Verse:

“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” (Ps. 42:2)

Challenge:

Instead of snacking at all today, drink some water.  Thirst is often mistaken for hunger, so allow yourself something healthy in place of junk.

Today, I read a story about a man who “burned down his house” because he took the batteries out of the smoke detector.  In his words, “I took them out because it was being so “loud” & “annoying”.  

Hmmmm …

I wonder if we do the same thing.

• Instead of working on our relationships, we bury ourselves more fully in our work, games, hobbies, facebook, sports, or television.
• Instead of doing something for poverty-stricken world, we get uncomfortable and distract ourselves by going shopping.
• Instead of turning off the stove, we take out the battery from our good ole’ faithful smoke detector and go back to sleep.  

Sometimes I wonder if I’m quenching my thirst or getting myself more thirsty. Like the challenge today, I wonder if I mistake my thirst for hunger & snack myself all throughout the day, ever wondering, why I’m still thirsty.  

There are times in my life where God is “beeping” to tell me just exactly what I need to do.  What I need to deal with.  Who & What I need to face.  Pouring out Himself and offering me a cup of the Water of Life!  

But instead of heeding the “beeping” I find myself distracted with a number of other nuisances & snacking in all the other junk of life.  I immerse myself with all sorts of other people’s problems and dive into all the latest news & gossip of this world while all kind of issues that God wanted me to deal with are collecting dust as it sits on the very bottom of my “to-do-list”.  

But there are those unforgettable moments in my life where I “Obeyed My Thirst” and drank deeply from the Fountain of the Grace of God.  Where the River of God’s grace waterlogged the dry, burnt, & scorched soil down in the deep recesses of my soul. Where Times of Refreshing came at the most desperately dehydrated moments of life.  These were moments where I set everything else aside, and sought the Presence of God and asked Him reveal what He’d have me do & for the will and the power to do it!   

We’re all thirsty.  Thirty for real people, true friends, authentic relationships and meaningful life.  We think about it now & then.  But most of the time, we get used ignoring our thirst and just “move on” with our lives with this seemingly un-quenchable thirst in our souls.  

Maybe today is the day we need to pray this prayer.

“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” (Ps. 42:2)

And get ready with our mouths Wide Open for the overflowing Fountain of the Grace of God to spring forth and Quench our thirst!