December 10, 2012 - Getting My Rain On

I pray your weekend was amazing! I am sorry this is late, I am working diligently on my recipe/devotional book and am a little tired today. :) I hope you understand. I was thinking about the devastation that lack of water is bringing to our nation. I read somewhere that it would take 9 feet of snow in some portions of the north to even begin to help with the spring run-off needed to bring health to the land. And, as I drove to south Georgia this past Saturday to take my mom to Westville for her birthday, my attention was dragged time and time again and focused on the destitute plight of the land suffering due to a lack of water. Ponds and small lakes were dried almost completely, docks sitting on the dry ground and ugly, parched land with pitiful weeds peeked out to inform me that death was near. I looked and wondered..........is that what our internal organs do when starved for water? Does my body shrivel and die from the inside out longing for ONE small hydration pocket. YES! Here's the bad part. Our bodies can't hydrate themselves no more than the dried and dying ponds and lakes can rain on themselves. They are totally dependent on water to arrive from an outside source. If not drinking each day causes my body to display what my eyes are beholding all around as water to the earth remains scarce, I am in trouble. Have you noticed the way the ponds and lakes around you appear? If not, take a peek. If yes, let's remember that God created our bodies with a high water content - 75% to be correct. When we fail TO WATER OUR BODIES, they become shriveled and dry and pitiful comparable to what we are experiencing around us today. Let's change that! We cannot create rain, nor can we make the heavens release rain to the earth. BUT......we can water our bodies. We DO have control over that situation. Take a look today and ask the Lord to allow the natural pictures of the earth to remind you that watering your body changes everything. Let that REAL picture make a REAL and LASTING impression. I'm getting my RAIN on as we speak.......how about you? PK