Daily Prayer - Quench your thirst

Good Thursday afternoon, my friends.

 

What is it that separates you from God?  What is that weakspot that Satan continually exploits in your life, causing you to return to that "broken cistern" (Jeremiah 2:13) over and over?

 

Is it drugs?  Alcohol?  Gambling?  Pornography?  Greed?  Food?  Control issues?  Whatever it is just came into your mind.   Like a "dog returning to his own vomit" (Proverbs 26:11) we will believe those lies one more time and come away completely empty. 

 

This time don't believe the lie.  Don't waste your time and resources on that which does not satisfy.  Instead of trying to drink from a broken cistern, drink from the cup that God offers:

 

"Come, all you who are thirsty,

   come to the waters;

and you who have no money,

   come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk

   without money and without cost.

Why spend money on what is not bread,

   and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,

   and you will delight in the richest of fare. (Isaiah 55:1-2)

Who wouldn't want the richest of fare?

 

 

 

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,

Bruce

 

In the dry wildernesses of our lives,

    in the days of heat and thirst,

        you offer us living water,

Thank you, gracious and generous God.

 

When we begin to doubt your presence,

    and grumble that your love is unreliable,

        you offer us living water,

Thank you, gracious and generous God.

 

When life's regrets and the bad choices we have made

    leave us feeling excluded and unworthy,

        you offer us living water,

Thank you, gracious and generous God.

 

When circumstances, or the inhumanity of others,

    have left us alone and wounded,

        you offer us living water,

Thank you, gracious and generous God.

 

We thank you and praise you, O God,

    that how ever we may thirst,

        what ever we may need to satisfy our souls,

    you offer it freely and abundantly in Christ;

So we drink deep of the living water

    and, as we draw from your wells,

        we seek to pass the cup to others

        who, like us, are thirsty for your grace.

Amen.

(http://www.sacredise.com/pages/RCL/Year%20A/Prayers/livingwater.html)

 

 

Bruce MacPherson

macpherson@celtic.ca / Blog: The Celtic Christian / Home: 613.489.4174 Cell: 613.720.0821

 

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