Are You Thirsty?
It is Friday morning, 8th January, 2021, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.
If we go to the Book of Revelation, Chapter 21 and verse 6:
“And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.”
Are you thirsty today? Yes, I am too.
Jesus invites us to come and to drink freely from the fountain of life. He is life itself. The Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
Let us not muddy the water by negative speech especially in the presence of young people.
This Coronavirus will definitely pass away and life will continue.
The best is yet to come. I firmly believe it with all of my heart.
Have you ever really been physically thirsty?
I remember clearly going hunting in Zambia.
We had been trekking for hours and hours, climbing up and down the hills, through the thick bush.
We had an experienced old Zambian tracker who was leading us.
The temperature was probably exceeding 40 degrees.
We had long since emptied our water bottles. There were no rivers in sight and we said to the old tribesman, “We need water to drink. We can’t go on much further.
Then he took us into a thick scrub bush.
He opened up a little spring that was well covered up in the ground.
It was carefully hidden and there was a small pool of chrystal clear water.
Well, we knelt down and we desperately scooped up the water with our very bare hands.
The old man, a dignified man, watched us from a distance.
He was sitting on his haunches underneath the shade of a tree and when we had finished drinking the water was properly muddied.
He stood up and he broke a leaf from a tree.
He fashioned that leaf into a cup of sorts, and then he bent down and he scooped up the water and drank it very carefully, and then he covered up his little fountain, and we carried on.
I felt terribly embarrassed.
Don’t muddy the water today by negative talk, by spoiling what Jesus has prepared for us.
Have a wonderful day.