It is raining this morning. A cold rain that gives a chill to the fall morning. It's rained a lot lately and some of us are growing weary of it. It's keeping us from getting that last cut of the grass or complicating raking our leaves that are dropping rapidly. It interferes with golf plans and makes fall football Friday nights very unpleasant. It adds a dampness to the cool air that plants a chill in our bones.
Yet rain is water, good old H20. It is one of God's sources of life and necessary to fruitfulness. Without water, we would ultimately wither and die. The Psalmist David speaks of this connection in Psalm 1. He talks about people who are blessed, who literally thrive at all times because they are closely connected to God.
"He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers." - Psalm 1:3
Most of us do not thrive because we are not planted close to Christ. We keep him at a distance. Although he is the river of life with its life-giving waters, we are more like trees planted in a desert depending on a rare rainfall or a dependable irrigation system ... both of which are pretty "iffy" for true survival, let alone to the thrive and bear fruit.
You can neither live nor thrive without the living water of Christ. Plant yourself close to Him.
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