Clean water is a life saver. Hot water is a game changer. Clean, hot water provides us with necessities and luxuries, too.
A hot shower and a warm beverage are part of my morning rituals each day. They feel like a necessity, but they are... in truth a luxury.
Yes, we need safe, clean water. Heating it can help us sanitize everything from silverware to medical instruments. Now, there are fancier ways to get surgical tools ready, but it is good to remember the power of boiling water.
After a storm or tornado takes out the power, we are quickly reduced to more primitive ways of living. It is always humbling to realize how much we depend on modern conveniences. It is good to practice and prepare for those times. Access to fresh clean water is the difference between life and death. A way to heat that water can be a game changer, too.
North Carolina and the other states impacted by recent hurricanes know far too well the difference clean, hot water can make. First responders barely slept. Many volunteer citizens organized, donated, and delivered much needed items. Clean drinking water was key to survival. A way to heat clean water would seem almost miraculous. Imagine the joy found in a hot shower, a hot bowl of soup, or a hot cup of coffee!
This passage came to mind. It is from a letter to the early church in Laodicea. It was a warning sent in love, meant as a wake up call. God knows our hearts.
“I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked." -Revelation 3:15-17
We do not want to be lukewarm.
Today, I am grateful for clean, hot water.
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