Monday, February 16, 2009

The Holy Spirit is like bottled water.


Oh bottled water. Not just any bottled water, top-of-the-line spring water. There's just something about that sweet release of built up pressure upon the turn of the cap. Bottled water is everywhere. It's virtually free, well, at least really cheap but work with me. We can have it on a simple whim and toss it to the way side without a thought, but it's still there. Sometimes, we drink it because it's good for us. We need water. Our bodies are made up of %70 water. But then there's those times....those times when you just ran a marathon(or walked up the stairs depending on your current physical stamina). During those times you feel like Esau comin in from the hunt: Without that glorious rush of Sodium Free, 0 calorie, quadruple-filtered necter of the gods you will surely die. So, you turn the small piece of plastic which guards this priceless liquid and as you take a gulp you can feel it sooth every inch of your inards. Over-all, bottled water is simply unappreciated; viewed as useless until we find it necessary. This is much like the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is always with us. Our souls are %100 filled with the Holy Spirit and can not survive without it. We sometimes casually recognize it's presence and oblige by being kind to someone or encouraging a friend: we do it because it's the "right" thing to do. But then there's those times....those times where worship brings you to tears and you are completely broken by the recognition of self-insufficiency. You just know that without the Holy Spirit there to put you at peace, you will surely die. So, as you lift your hands and open your heart and recognize your need for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You tear off the grip that the devil has on your heart and feel the Spirit sooth every inch of your heart and soul. And so we see the power of a gulp of the Holy Spirit. So friends, I challenge you not to partake in the chemically tainted tap water that life gives you to quench the unquenchable, but instead, carry your bottled water with pride and dump it on the head of everyone you meet(Disclaimer: this is a metaphor and I hereby dismiss any responsibility for the literal dumping of water on other human beings). You need bottled water. It's there for the taking.

4 comments:

  1. HA HA! You said inards. HA HA!

    D.L. Moody said that there is no revival of our spirit, none at all, without a recognition of the Holy Spirit and its work in our lives.

    He was pretty smart.

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  2. I love this. I laughed hard. Especially at this, "Without that glorious rush of Sodium Free, 0 calorie, quadruple-filtered necter of the gods you will surely die." Also, I wanted to tell you that the water we have here from Climax, KY is probably the most metaphorical for the Holy Spirit. I love you!

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  3. Once upon a time there was a place where a day wasn't complete without a trip to fetch a bucket of cool water from the local spring that was tucked away in the mountainside and shaded by the oaks, maples, and pines.

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  4. Ooo. Ooo. Like the spring in the gap from JBC to Seymour. I think that's Holy Spirit water if there ever was any.

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