Which would I choose? One of the many drinks that had the flavors that are enticing but are harmful to me or would I choose the purified drinking water that is good for me, but is clear, pure and tasteless?
While looking over the drinks, the drinks that I really wanted; the ones that appealed to me the most were the sugary, carbonated, caffeinated drinks. These were the drinks that have the flavor that I was drawn to.
On the other hand, I noticed the purified drinking water and was reminded of how God is pure, clean and for my benefit. We need water to survive, but don't always desire it until we are hot, thirsty and desperate.
Being neither hot nor desperate, I chose the soda.
This is human nature. The nature of the flesh. I need water, but since my need was not great or desperate, I chose what I don't need...what is not beneficial to me...what my flesh longed for.
I realized how much we choose what we want over what we need every day. I realized that I too was a slave to my passions as I chose the soda over the water. I realized how much our needs go unfulfilled while our wants get top priority.
God is pure, but we don't desire what is pure. Not until our need is great, our throats are parched or our situation is desperate. God offers His water freely, but we reject it. Why? What does God say in His Word?
Isaiah 55:1-3:
“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. 2 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. 3 Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
We desire and seek what is not beneficial, but what we need is free. It is satisfaction to our souls, but we don't desire it.
When will we seek that which satisfies, which gives us life? God is the purified water. All we need to do is to go to Him and drink and He will give us the Living Water. As Jesus said in John 7:37-38:
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
Seek Jesus and live. Choose the water.
