01-29-2014
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down
jungles, but to irrigate deserts." - C.S. Lewis
In the earliest act of creation, the Bible tells us that God
separated earth from the heavens, and that “the Spirit of God was hovering over
the waters.” (Gen 1:2 NKJV) God saw that
life needed water for continued growth and health. Without it, living things wither and
die. The same is true of our spiritual
life and growth. Without the life giving
power of God’s flowing Spirit pouring into and nourishing us, our spiritual
landscape becomes dry and cracked; unable to be fertile soil in which seeds of
life can take deep root and grow. When
that happens, we wither and die.
As disciples nourished by and enlivened in the presence of the Spirit, we are then called to go and baptize and teach what we have been taught. (Matt 28: 19-20) We are called to irrigate.
As disciples nourished by and enlivened in the presence of the Spirit, we are then called to go and baptize and teach what we have been taught. (Matt 28: 19-20) We are called to irrigate.
In a culture that is thirsting for more... in a society that
is increasingly dehydrated because of an attempt to dam up the flow of living
water by endeavoring to silence the voice of God’s people in public squares so
others’ don’t have to be faced with “judgmental” proclamation that sin exists…
we as Christians should understand the necessity of being called to bring the
fount of life to the world. For it is
only when we find the way to bring that water into peoples’ parched and dry
souls that life begins to spring up anew within their hearts. It is our job to begin to dig.
It isn’t an easy task.
But it is a task that the Christ found so important that He carved a
furrow all the way to the top of a hill called Golgotha by dragging a Roman
cross WE deserved to carry. Our salvation grows from that irrigative work; allowing
the living waters to flow over, around and through us... nourishing us into eternal life.
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