There are days I just don’t feel like worlding. I don’t feel like adulting, being a wife, mom, going to work all of it. I’ll get to a point where I don’t feel like dealing with anything in this world. It’s one of those days where I could just sit with a cup of coffee, my bible, talk to Jesus and that quite literally be it. And if I’m being totally honest, there are days I don’t even feel like doing that. Now don’t make this something it’s not. I’m not wanting to take myself out of this world in that sense. Am I ready to be in heaven and ready for Jesus to come back, yes. Am I going to do anything that will help that happen sooner, no. So save your dm. Love y’all but we live in a world where more people will automatically jump to that conclusion as opposed to the one that really is and that’s just that I long to be in His presence without a care in the world.
For some oddly random reason this makes me think of my little work plant…I call her Dramatic Darcy. You see she really doesn’t require much but when you deprive her of the one major thing she really needs on a regular basis she can get quite dramatic. Side note: I find it hilarious that when I just googled to see what kind of a plant she is… it turns out she is a Nerve Plant! She definitely gets on my nerves when she is being so dramatic. So being that DD, as we will call her, is my work plant I only see her M-F 7:00 – 3:30 and that’s if I’m not off a day or out at a meeting. It never fails that on any given Monday morning I will walk into my dark office, turn on the lights and find DD in a position of humble bowing…not the case at all… she is dramatic and bent over like she is on her death bed. That girl looks as though she went out on Saturday night and stumbled back in with no life left in her. It is then that I realize I was so excited to leave on Friday that I forgot to give her the one major thing she needs to survive… water. Yes, I’ll admit I can be a horrible plant mom from time to time. You see DD needs water to survive. Not direct sunlight. Not plant food. Not anything else but water and she relies on me to provide that. When I fail to provide, she begins to wilt, lose energy and die.
When I have those days or seasons like I mentioned above, I’d say 9 out of 10 times…okay, okay…10 out of 10 times it’s because I have failed to provide myself with the one major thing I need to survive…the Living Water.
Jesus is the Living Water
In John 4 is one of my favorite bible stories of the woman at the well. Here is a woman at probably her lowest. She feels dejected, wilted, and like an outcast. She goes about her chores in the heat of the day so she doesn’t have to deal with he weight of the world looking down on her and here she meets Jesus. After asking for a drink and her questioning his sanity basically for speaking to her, He tells her this in John 4:13 – 14,
Just like my little Dramatic Darcy needs water to maintain life and agility, we need the Living Water to have life and have it abundantly. We were never created to be comfortable in this world. Its tough, hard and will do everything in it’s power to beat you down. However when you make sure to slow down and take the time to provide yourself with the Living Water, hence talk to Him, read His word, meditate on the things from Him, then you will have the strength to continue on worlding.
In 2 Corinthians 12:9 – 10 we have this amazing promise, “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.“
The Living Water is readily available for you today. Be sure you slow down long enough to take a nice long drink!
Until next time, grow and glow!
~R