BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS - KETCHUP AND MUSTARD SATURDAY

It's a Ketchup (Catch-up) and Mustard (Must Do) Saturday! 

When a ketchup bottle gets squeezed, ketchup comes out.

When a mustard bottle gets squeezed, mustard comes out.

When a christian gets squeezed, what should come out?

A summer Saturday reminder of what this life is all about!

It's summer!  It's hot! 

I saw today, on FB, that one of my friends was experiencing 110+ degrees.

How does summer heat effect you?

Are you exhausted?

Dehydrated?

There's a lot of water coming down outside.

I just heard, on the news,

that this month has already made the record, for our state,

for the most rain in any month - ever.

What about drinking water?

There may be plenty coming down,

but are you getting plenty inside of you each day?

How much do you need?

Since our children were little,

I worked hard to keep the family hydrated

with pure water.

Each person had his/her own water bottle

in the door of the refrigerator.

I do the same, now, for the 3 of us still at home...





 along with plenty of water bottles to take with us when we are on the go.  

What makes water pure?

Actually, "pure water" is a term usually used

to refer to water that is just water- with no other materials dissolved in it.

Most water has some materials like salt or minerals dissolved in it,

so obtaining truly "pure" water (Just H20) is rare.

There are different rules of thumb about keeping hydrated.

The one that I believe to make the most sense and

have tried to adhere to is:

Everyday,

drink half of your weight in water.

This rule applies, as long as you weigh 240 lbs. or less.

Typically, on an "average day" no one needs to

drink more than 120 ounces.

So, if you weigh...

100 lbs.? Then, drink a minimum of 50 ounces of water.

150 lbs.?  Then, drink a minimum of 75 ounces of water.

240 lbs. or more?  Then, drink a minimum of 120 ounces.

Is it possible that you've been feeling physically BLAH

because you are not getting enough H20 each day?

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What about spiritually?

Are you getting enough water?

Are you getting the right kind of water?

Like oblivious little children chugging household cleaning liquids,

we consume the devil’s drinks of:

fear...

 distrusting God...

 worry...

pride...

impatience..

gossip...

lies...

We must replace the junk drinking with pure LIVING WATER. 

When we get squeezed, shouldn't it be pure LIVING WATER that come out?

Consider Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman in John 4:

 

^7 "There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water.

Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

 ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹ Therefore the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “

How is it that You, being a Jew,

ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?”

(For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her,

“If you knew the gift of God,

and who it is who says to you,

‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him,

and He would have given you living water.”

¹¹ She said to Him,

“Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep;

where then do You get that living water?

¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You,

who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her,

“Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst;

but the water that I will give him will

become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

ARE YOU MEETING THE NEEDS

OF YOUR SPIRITUAL THIRST

BY FILLING UP ON JESUS AND HIS TEACHINGS?

A great way is to join us here each day.

It's transforming!

BLESSED!  OH, THE JOY!