We live in blueberry country. Everywhere within a five mile radius, blueberries are plentiful. At quick glance, all appears well as you drive past the fields. Bushes hang heavy with sweet clumps of ripe berries. Workers are in the fields. Vehicles move in and out. Trailer-hauling trucks loaded with cases of berries are a daily road hazard.
A closer inspection tells a different story. The lack of rain is straining the bushes. Dead wood is visible in bushes. Entire rows of bushes in some farms are brown, wilted and dying. No matter the endless hours of irrigation the farmers pour on their crops. These bushes need rain, and they need rain now! Water is the source of life for blueberries.
You and I are like blueberries. God created us for life in him. He is our living water, and just like blueberries, we need water to live. At first glance, we may look like we have it all together. We can pour money, love, family and friends into our lives, but if we are not drenched daily in his living water, we will develop into dead wood.
John 7:37b-38: 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.”
Please pray for physical rain. Our crops are in desperate need of rain.
Pray for spiritual rain. Our lives are in desperate need of the living water that only Jesus can provide.
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