Thursday, March 12, 2020

Hydration

Year 8-Day 71: Today, I am grateful for hydration.

With everyone talking about the coronavirus, I am reminded of the blessing of living with plenty of options for hydration. Water is life. We currently have access to many ways to restore our bodies when they become dehydrated. We live with an abundance of water, juices, sodas and teas. There are beverages aimed at restoration and fighting dehydration. Fresh water is the best thirst quencher.

The body depends on water to survive. Every cell, tissue, and organ in your body needs water to work properly. Your body uses water to maintain its temperature, remove waste, and lubricate your joints. Water is necessary for overall good health. We take it for granted until we don't have enough. The body is somewhere between 70-80% water. Water is life. 

There are many scriptures that speak about water and desert places. 2000 years ago, they understood that without good, fresh water, death was inevitable. One of my favorite conversations in the Bible occurs between Jesus and a Samaritan woman. Culture said he should ignore her. He didn't. He engaged her in conversation because her soul was at risk. 

"Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” -John 4:13-14

Who will we engage today because a soul is at risk? How do we saturate our thirsty souls with hope with messages that provoke fear at every turn? The spring of living water is available to all who seek to know Him. We choose to seek that living water... or we ignore our need for it. 

We can choose the living water and it will heal like nothing else can. 

"He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul." -Psalm 23:2-3

Water is life. He is the living water. He restores my soul.

Today, I am grateful for hydration.

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