Splashing in Puddles // October 25, 2010

Splashing in the Puddles

I love rain! I love playing in it and
drinking it! I run through it, play football in it, and listen to it. I
read a verse today that  stood out to me in this passage of scripture
Proverbs 25:26. It says “Like a muddied spring or polluted well are the
righteous who give way to the wicked.” I looked up the definition of
“spring,” and the definition for “well” and for some reason I felt to
look up “wellspring.” I was amazed at what I found and the revelation I
had. Besides being a season of the year or a trench of water in the
ground, a wellspring is the fountain head, or the source of a body of
water, a stream, or a river. It is the supply or source of anything,
especially when considered exhaustible. We do so much in a day and
normally our day consists of conversations and being around people, and
as you know people can be exhausting and take a lot out of us. Just like
us, wells and springs in the ground also dry up and lose their water
and life. God has entrusted us all with our own “wells.” Our mind is a
well, and ultimately our heart is a well. Even our degree of influence
is a well. God asks us to live generously, and to live our lives on
behalf of others. He gives us dreams and visions and influence but how
often do we allow our “wells” to be polluted with fear, with doubt, with
insecurity? How often do we let our well dry up, or do we go to a mud
puddle after the rain rather than a spring, looking for water to quench
our thirst? Anything can pollute or spoil our waters, but only God keeps
our well clean. Look to Christ to be the one that fills and cleanses
your well. Ask him to refill you. Nothing satisfies us like Jesus and if
we are not intentional to seek him, our wells we become like mud. Who
wants to drink from a muddy puddle?